Re: [umlbuilder-devel] RPM indexing speedups

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> Thanks to some insight from Terrel, I have been looking at
> speeding up the RPM indexing.  There were two things that a
> big effect.  The first is telling the rpm command/library
> not to try and verify the various signatures/digests on
> the rpm.  The second is using the rpm-python library.

UML Builder 1.40-5 shipped with the speedups.  Unfortunately the 
command line argument speedups are only available on Redhat 8.0.
7.3 doesn't have them.  I didn't try Mandrake 9.0.

I also had difficulty getting the rpm-python library to work
on anything except Redhat 8.0.  Since Redhat use it during install,
it gets arbitrary tweaked and changed for each release.

The net effect is that the speedups only work on Redhat 8.0.

Roger