Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb Dirk Mueller:
> > > > when I update openSUSE with "zypper dup", I have to download nearly 1GB
> > > > of packages. I seriously doubt that all of them were updated. It takes
> > > > me hours to get all updates... (slow DSL line)
> > use deltarpms. I think it is actually a bug that we don't produce them for
> > factory distribution - I don't know why actually.
>
> deltarpms are bad for factory users as they require metadata updates _after_
> the factory tree is synced out. It would take _even_ longer to get to a new
> factory snapshot being online.
>
> But we have drpmsync data next to factory, unfortunately no-one is using them.
> And the question is how can we improve that? Let me ask you guys: would it be
> ok if you had to mirror either all of factory or a portion of it before you
> could update from your local mirror?
>
> Greetings, Stephan

I haven't checked the wiki, so I don't know if drpmsync is described 
there. I haven't paid nay attention to it either. Where it fits in the 
picture could be made clear in the list.
Out of sync mirrors do cause problems, zypper dup will throw up lots of 
conflicts one day and be largely fine next day when the full synch is 
completed. The list could be informed of when synch is about to happen 
and when the mirrors are likely to be fully synched - confusing things 
happen when the synch is in progress. Emperically I observe that 
Saturday is a bad day to update, Tuesdays usually OK.
Regards
Sid.
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