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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [softwaremgmt] when to refresh?
- From: "Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:37:39 +0200
- Message-id: <200707201637.39119.dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>
On Friday 20 July 2007 01:57:13 pm Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> For 'zypper sa http://foo bar', why do user NOT want an immediate metadata
> download ?
>
> Lets see
> - the system is currently offline
> - the user is adding lots of repos in a batch
> - the user just wants to prep the system without using the repo immediately
> What else ?
>
> Imho, adding a repo (via zypper or yast) should at least check for
> reachability of the repo and give immediate feedback. (one might have
> mistyped the url, access an incompatible architecture, etc.)
Checking for reachability needs network access, which is you did not want
above.
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> For 'zypper sa http://foo bar', why do user NOT want an immediate metadata
> download ?
>
> Lets see
> - the system is currently offline
> - the user is adding lots of repos in a batch
> - the user just wants to prep the system without using the repo immediately
> What else ?
>
> Imho, adding a repo (via zypper or yast) should at least check for
> reachability of the repo and give immediate feedback. (one might have
> mistyped the url, access an incompatible architecture, etc.)
Checking for reachability needs network access, which is you did not want
above.
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