Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon 08 Oct 2007 22:11:52 NZDT +1300, Klaus Kaempf wrote:

> It depends on the number of packages. For a normal maintenance update
> with only a handful of packages, download all is probably a good
> strategy.
> 
> With distribution upgrade (i.e. 10.2->10.3) or factory update with
> hundreds of packages, you'll need quite some disk space ;-)

Uhhmm, like, 4.2GB tops, that being the size of the DVD which is a
fits-all? What's the smallest disk you can buy these days, 80GB? 120GB?

> Whats the exit strategy if the disk space is not sufficient ?

Display a warning before starting. Size of all packages/files to
download is known before download begins. There is df.

What I would like to see is the creation of a download cache which can
be copied/shared with other hosts (which would imply it's not created at
/var/lib/random/phaseofmoon/day-of-week/yast/). The cache only contains
what's needed at least once, not the whole shebang. Debian (so I
believe) hits the nail square on the head there.

Volker

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