Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx> [Jun 16. 2006 11:05]:
> 
> Well, smart considers a "commit" to be a single transaction and hence,
> it first downloads everything to make sure the transaction will be able
> to proceed as a whole (unless you specify "--stepped").

So does ZENworks.
It downloads everything first and then hands over to libzypp which
installs 'stepped'.

> That approach has advantages and drawbacks ;)

;-)

Transaction based is right for a small set of packages or when
you have cyclic dependencies.

It gets harder with new installations, cycles involving lots of
packages, or even multi-CD installs.
You'd need a pretty big harddisk.

Also RPM isn't too smart handling transactions in case of failure.

Klaus

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