You are correct. It was implemented this way taking in consideration the
output when checking for updates on RHVH hosts.
This implementation is indeed going to be changed, so that upgrade will
become faster
Dana
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:19 PM Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:41 AM Dana Elfassy
<delfassy(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Gianluca,
> Upgrade host time depends on the upgrading that needs to be done
>
For sure. This is always true. In my case part of the update is updating
the host from 8.3 to 8.4, so many packages involved.
And my observation is that it seems as if the process updates all the
packages one by one as subsequent commands, with an unneeded long time in
my opinion.
Each time it seems it goes through transaction test and so on...
Very very suboptimal if it is true and confirmed.
From an ansible point of view it seems that it happens something like this
- name: ensure a list of packages installed
yum:
name: "{{ item }}"
state: latest
loop: "{{ packages }}"
instead of
- name: ensure a list of packages installed
yum:
name: "{{ packages }}"
state: latest
Where {{ packages }} is a pre-computed (probably in a previous step) list
of packages to be updated.
Gianluca