Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Monkey 9 <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Francis Giannaros schreef:
> On 05/04/2008, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The Saturday 2008-04-05 at 15:50 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
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> > > Am Samstag, 5. April 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > Each week I do a "zypper dup" of factory it means downloading about 1.6
> > > > GiB, meaning a minimum of 4 hours, probably 8. Would it be possible to
> > > > reduce the size somehow? Deltas, perhaps?
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> > > Yeah, we have some ideas what to do, but no time to do it. One thing we
> > > did already was switching to lzma, which saves some of the download size.
> > > Deltas are another, but that needs some effort to be done correctly.
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> > Another improvemennt would be separating the download and the install on
> > diferent threads or whatever, so that the next rpm is been downloaded while
> > another is beeng installed.
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> This was something proposed for ZYpp, but I'm not sure quite what
> happened. Parallel downloads in addition to this (like Smart) would
> help, too.
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Where will the downloads be stored when simultaneous downloads will be 
integrated?
To be prepared i already made a /temp partition about 5GB. ;)



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