Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Friday 24 November 2006 14:17 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
> Just a proposal for 10.3, as for 10.2 it's too late anyway:
>
> I think the installation source module should not fetch any other data then
> the source name. It should just put the right info on the right place, like
> editing /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/yum/yum.d.repos/
>
> Why? With the current solution, each time you launch the installation
> source module metadata is fetched. Most of us probably never need this
> metadata to add a new source. I even doubt, that the module itsef needs
> this data.

if the source is marked as not changing source, this happens only once.

> If you start the Package Manager after the installation source module, the
> same data is fetched again. So Suse does 2x the work, which would be needed
> actually to perform an installation from a new source.

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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