[opensuse-factory] Observation: software install in RC1 can be a bit unfriendly
After installing RC1 I decided to add a package that I know is on the DVD. As this time I had installed with GNOME, I went into the Computer->Install Software menu to do a search for that package. Unfortunately what I got was zen taking up 100% of the CPU for ever and ever .. until I eventually killed it. I then went to Yast -> Software Management. This started to download updates from the web with no apparent way to stop it. It is now 20 minutes later and it is still running. This seems like an unneighborly sort of user interaction. If the user wants to install something that is on the local DVD there ought to be a way for one to do that *quickly* and not be subject to a degree of automation that resembles some interminable auto-destruct sequence in a bad SciFi movie. :) - Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Bruce A. Mallett schrieb:
I then went to Yast -> Software Management. This started to download updates from the web with no apparent way to stop it. It is now 20 minutes later and it is still running.
This might be caused by two distinct problems. (1) You probably ended up being redirected to ftp.opensuse.org - this will never finish. (I tried downloading gimp as an individual package, which is about 8 MB, when it was not yet synced out to any other mirror and it took more than an hour to download.) (2) You have a HTTP/FTP installation source that is obviously set to "Autorefresh". Adding this by default was a very popular request which - as so frequently - claimed that 100% of the users cannot live without. You obviously can, so disable it. What YaST downloads are the repository metadata, currently about 40 MB for the factory tree. You can easily calculate how long this takes with modem speed (hours). Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Andreas Hanke
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Bruce A. Mallett