Bug 470234

Description of problem:

Installation takes much longer than a normal kickstart.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Run a kickstart install without overriding the url

Actual results:

Install takes ages, especially grabbing the headers of the packages while it's preparing to install.  This leads to a very long period before any package has actually been installed.  With a large install this pre-install step can take an hour!

Expected results:

Install should be as snappy as if I wasn't using spacewalk.

Additional info:

This appears to be because all the rpm requests go through a wrapper, so requests go to (for example):

/ty/3K7BjfcP/CentOS/tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

If I just make available the dvd image that I'd pushed with make-ks-tree.sh directly on the webserver, and point the spacewalk install to it (using the url kickstart parameter) these accesses are no longer wrapped, and the install is *much* faster, and also puts noticeably less load on the server.

If these calls are to be wrapped, they'd better be done so efficiently.