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=== Thursday 7th June 2007 ===

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `getmail` to 4.7.5
 * Updated `perl-IO-Socket-SSL` to 1.07

I also had a hack at the `repoclosure` script from `yum-utils` so that I could check the
repositories for each distribution much more quickly. The standard `repoclosure` script
checks all of the packages in all of the enabled repositories to make sure that their
dependencies can be satisfied. My repositories are small relative to the main distribution repositories,
and the majority of the time it takes `repoclosure` to run is spent checking the main distribution
repositories for dependency closure against themselves (and very often finds problems with them too).
The problem is even worse on `x86_64` with all of the multilib crap increasing the number of
packages in the repos.
However, I'm only actually interested in broken dependencies for packages in my own repositories,
so most of the time spent by `repoclosure` is wasted for me.

My hack adds another option, `--checkrepo`, which works like the existing `--repoid` option, which
specifies a repository that I'm interested in checking. Any other enabled repositories from the
configuration file are used only to satisfy the dependencies and the packages there don't get their own
dependencies checked. I'm seeing an order of magnitude improvement in checking times now, which is nice.
Unfortunately my knowledge of python is very limited and hence it's a very horrible hack to get this working,
and an unpleasant side effect is that I'm getting two copies of every logged message (i.e. every line of output)
because I've now got two instances of the `RepoClosure` class rather than one. I can get rid of those using
`awk` but I'd much rather find a cleaner solution. Must actually learn python someday.
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