Description of problem: yum update with yum.conf tsflags=repackage causes 100% processor use on CentOS/RHEL 5 whilst repackaging in progress Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. add tsflags-repackage in yum.conf 2. edit installonlyn.conf enable=0 3. yum update Actual results: 100% processor util during repackage Expected results: Additional info: processor is Intel i386 Pentium M on Tecra S2 notebook perhaps fix is to put a throttle on repackage? my assumption is that this bug will be evident accross different processors and on FC5/6 too. I can test this if you like?
try this, please: see if you see the same performance issue using rpm to perform the updates. If that results, please reassign this to rpm. Thanks!
I got the same performance issue when using rpm and have reassigned this to rpm as you suggest.
ps rpm-4.4.2-37.el5 on centos/rhel was the version that I used (and for interest the more recent rpm-4.4.2-46.fc7 on fedora 7 does the same too)
I fail to see the bug in here, repackaging is non-trivial amount of work.