Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:50:32 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > It should do the same as Yum, IMO: download metadata + packages, and
> > when that fails at any point, you'd refresh the local metadata and start
> > over, and once you have a consistent state on your system (including
> > packages) _then_ start the actual update.
>
> That requires double disk space. 

With some intelligence it could actually be possible to delete cached
packages that are known to be obsolete already, before their new
versions are downloaded, no?

> And there is no guarantee that we won't 
> have to restart the download many times.

No guarantuee, but this is function of the frequency of factory
replacement, and your download speed.

Obviously, when factory is replaced every 5 minutes, this is never going
to work, unless a lot of snapshots are kept around. So there needs to be
some piece and time for updates.

The same happens for the buildservice - it's always possible that some
repository is being updated while you access it. By the time you press
'y' it could be have been replaced, so you need to start again.
The difference to the Factory is that the second attempt is very likely
successfull.
While with Factory the second attemt is very likely unsuccessful ;)

Peter
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