[packagekit] Caching of repository metadata (esp. Yum)

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:12 +0100, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> I would say, don't make PackageKit more complex because some yum
> specific problem.

Totally. I don't plan on making anymore cache's in the daemon --
although I do think we need the updates cache like we have now.

> We (ZYpp developers) had the performance issues in the past and it is
> possible to fix them.

Yes, yum in F10 is much quicker than F9 for instance.

> We still suffer from the locking problem, for
> example if you open YaST or run zypper, it may happen that we get the
> ZYpp locked by packagekitd exception. We workaround it by setting the
> daemon timeout to a really short time, but we plan to fix it with a
> more granular lock in the future.

Right, sounds very sane.

Richard.