Smart 1.4.1 Hangs When Large Numbers of new Packages

[Mark Hatle]

On 6/16/14, 11:05 PM, Pavel Nemec wrote:
> Exactly same issue on RH4, 5 an 6.
> I have suspicion that dep. solver can't handle multiple provides of file based
> dependencies. But it might be just hunch.

Within the Yocto Project we've got a slightly modified version of smart 
(supported RPM5's recommended packages), and of course uses RPM 5 vs 4.

I've been doing things with package feeds in 1200-2000 package range and not 
experience any significant issues.  (99% of my runs though are using smart 
'install', not upgrade.)  I'll keep watching and let you know if I experience 
any issues as I start to do more upgrades.

FYI, we're using Python 2.7 as well.

--Mark

> Thidney
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> -------- Původní zpráva --------
> Od: Stephen Morris
> Datum:17. 06. 2014 0:38 (GMT+01:00)
> Komu: smart at labix.org
> Předmět: Smart 1.4.1 Hangs When Large Numbers of new Packages
>
> Hi,
>        I occasionally have issues with smart whereby when I have anywhere
> between 300 - 2200+ new packages in channels, smart's calculation of
> what needs to be updated/installed when issuing "smart upgrade" appears
> to never finish. I have been in the situation where I have left the
> calculation running for more than an hour without it finishing. In these
> situations I have to use the native Fedora 20 package manager to do the
> update, which invariably displays the packages to update almost
> immediately. This issue is not unique to Fedora 20, I have had this
> issue with every version of Fedora from Fedora 18 plus I have had this
> issue with multiple versions of smart up to 1.4.1 under Mandriva when I
> was using it.
>        Has anybody else seen this sort of issue?
>
> regards,
> Steve
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