Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/21/07, Christian Jäger <christian.jaeger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > What if other vendors add patch-priority packages into their
> > repository, eg for security updates? We shouldn't discriminate against
> > them.
> >
> > _
> > Benjamin Weber
> >
> I'm not quite sure I understood that correctly. Are you talking about
> patches present in a repo different from the one a hypothetical update
> was detected? Is it seriously discriminating if such patches are
> detected only on opensuse-updaters next round of source-refreshes?

Ah, I think I misunderstood your point, yes I think if you've already
detected the update there is no reason to refresh all the other
sources which don't have detected updates.

> My feeling towards this are that a user would rather do three updates a
> day (on the rare occasion that there really _are_ three updates a day),
> because opensuse-updater does not detect them all in one go, than wait
> for YaST to refresh the giant opensuse-oss repo + 10 or so additional
> installation sources on an update _just_to_make_sure_.

Well it's certainly not trivial to get the balance for refreshing
sources right. On the one hand one might spend too long waiting for
sources to refresh. On the other hand one might start getting
unexplained download errors because the source has changed since last
refreshed, which is what the situation was before refresh was on by
default.

As Martin mentioned the performance of refreshing is being worked on
for 10.3 too.

_
Benjamin Weber
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