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@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:41 AM Dana Elfassy <delfassy@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