#97 rpm 4.7 in Fedora 11
Closed None Opened 15 years ago by spot.

There is significant improvement in moving to the rpm 4.7.0 beta in the F11 cycle, but we would like FESCo's approval before making this change.

The big wins:

  • Memory consumption in transactions has been reduced dramatically. A testcase of "everything install" of Fedora 10 used to top at near 1.5GB memory consumption, now the peak with the same package set is just over 300MB. Also gone is the quadratic memory consumption on large number of identical basenames. After the peak during Preparing-stage, heap consumption drops to mere megabytes during the actual transaction.
  • File conflict checking / fingerprinting runs an order of magnitude faster, especially for upgrades and erasures.

Full details are here:
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0

We would not be making buildsystem changes as part of this, just updating the rpm release in F11. Any serious showstoppers could be handled by reverting to 4.6.

Please consider this in tomorrows meeting, so that we can get a yes or no. If yes, we will be able to pick this up by beta.


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