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Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd
  • From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:47:56 +0100
  • Message-id: <ho4ptgy1jn.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas,
>
> On Friday 03 November 2006 07:07, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Fredag 03 november 2006 15:16 skrev Andreas Jaeger:
>> >> > 1) Is zmd slated for replacement before 10.2 final arrives?
>> >>
>> >> No, it will be in 10.2.
>> >
>> > But you can remove it manually. And you will not lose any
>> > functionality as zypper and opensuse-updater can replace rug and
>> > zen-updater respectively. It seems there will even be a pattern for
>> > performing this action.
>>
>> There will be one starting with beta2 - so it should be easy to do,
>
> Won't you fix this constant running? Surely that cannot be normal
> operation, can it? At this point, it has run up 340 minutes of CPU
> time. What's it doing with this interminable activity?

This is a bug - so, please file it with zmd-*log files.

> And if one chooses to remove it, what takes its place and what are the
> consequences of doing so? Can I still use YaST's Software Management
> module to manage my installed packages?

Yes, you can - modulo bugs,

Andreas
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