Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Keith Goggin <kgoggin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 December 2006 12:54, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Keith Goggin schrieb:
> > I've noticed that <filelists.xml.gz> is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has
> > changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from
> > <mirror.pacific.net.au> and is currently 2.9MB in size.
>
> It's really insane. This XML stuff has made SUSE distros basically
> unusable without a broadband connection. 3MB before the distro is even
> released - crazy!
>
> > I had a look at this compressed text file and observed that it contains a
> > very large proportion of redundant data.
> >
> > 	/a/b/c/d/e/file1
> > 	/a/b/c/d/e/file2
> > 	etc
> >
> > If this file could be compressed further by omitting the redundant data
> > the compressed version would download much faster and may improve the end
> > users experience of updating their system.
>
> Yes, there are much more efficient ways to store these data than repomd
> does. But hey, XML is so much cooler.
>
> Maybe one of those talented persons who designed repomd should have a
> look at /var/lib/locatedb. It's able to store equivalent information
> about 2 Linuxes, 1 Windows system and a lot of user files in just 2.5MB.
> Thanks to not using XML.

Err ... Yes, it's just that I'm trying not to use emotive language :-)
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