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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
- From: "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:59:22 +0200
- Message-id: <447D4CD9.29853.8BA9A3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 31 May 2006 at 0:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > This is mandated by the switch to repomd. repomd's design doesn't allow
> > downloading only a subset of metadata because all metadata are stored in
> > a single XML file. (It's actually not a single XML file, but the effect
> > is the same as if it were.)
>
> Whatever the reason, it SUCKS. (And it's not nice without a progress
> indicator.) This is half a show stopper. I doubt any of my $RELATIVES on
> dialup are going to download >10MB every few days just to find out that
> a package they haven't installed was updated.
Hi,
where's the repodata DTD BTW?
[...]
Regards,
Ulrich
> > This is mandated by the switch to repomd. repomd's design doesn't allow
> > downloading only a subset of metadata because all metadata are stored in
> > a single XML file. (It's actually not a single XML file, but the effect
> > is the same as if it were.)
>
> Whatever the reason, it SUCKS. (And it's not nice without a progress
> indicator.) This is half a show stopper. I doubt any of my $RELATIVES on
> dialup are going to download >10MB every few days just to find out that
> a package they haven't installed was updated.
Hi,
where's the repodata DTD BTW?
[...]
Regards,
Ulrich
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