View source for SPO600 - Createrepo Optimization

[[Category: Winter 2015 SPO600]]

<code>createrepo</code> is a tool which accepts as its input a set of RPM software packages. It reads the metadata from these packages to produce a set of files/databases which contain information about the RPMs and the relationships between them, such as dependencies and precedence, producing a ''repository''.

This information can then be used by the <code>yum</code> or <code>dnf</code> commands to install packages from that repository, correctly resolving dependencies without opening and reading each of the RPMs individually.

== Opportunity ==

<code>createrepo</code> and the related program <code>mergerepo</code> are heavily used by the [[:fedora:Koji|Koji]] build system and other RPM build processes. However, it appears to be much slower than it could be, and speeding it up would be a huge boon to many RPM build systems.

== Source ==

<code>createrepo</code> is hosted at http://createrepo.baseurl.org/

== How to Proceed ==

If you are interested in working on this project, please note your name and contact information here. There should be a maximum of 2 people working on different aspects of this project.

* ''Your name here...''