Feature changed by: Federico Lucifredi
Feature #302354, revision 16
Title: Split metadata by architecture / modules
Buildservice: New
openSUSE-11.0: Rejected by Stanislav Visnovsky
reject date: 2008-03-28 16:28:18
reject reason: Out of resources. The speed of parsing is greatly
improved, downloading is still an issue in 11.0.
openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Federico Lucifredi
reject date: 2008-11-20 19:33:01
reject reason: postponing unless engineering tells me otherwise.
- openSUSE-11.2: New
+ openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation
SLED-11-SP1
SLES-11-SP1
Requested by: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov)
Interested: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
All packages are in a single file no matter if they are from different
architectures, therefore ZYpp has to download everything
Any kind of metadata should be separated by architecture. ZYpp does it
for patterns in 10.3, but it is still missing for packages
The metadata should be ideally separated by subdirectories and modules.
See references on how debian does it
References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208452
Relations:
- No intel (32bit), 64 bit and ppc catalogs in one repository (inst-
source) (novell/bugzilla/id: 309296)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309296
Discussion:
#1: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) (2007-11-09 16:52:55)
This is not true, YaST filter patterns in 10.3. Will edit the feature
to represent the real problems
#2: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2008-06-13 20:22:10)
Duncan, do we still need this / have an advantage from it ? if so, lets
make it Mandatory.
#3: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) (2008-06-26 13:17:09)
This feature requires:
- separate primary.xml files per architecture. 90% effort -> rudi ,
adrian
- tell libzypp to ignore certain pattern or convention ( primary-x86_64.
xml ??? ) when downloading -> one liner.
It is not much benefit anymore as we are much faster now, but I would
recommend pset it to desirable and pass to Rudi and Adrian.
#4: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2008-06-26 13:20:11) (reply to #3)
Adrian, this is something for you.
#5: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2008-11-06 16:21:18)
We have seperate ppc from i586/x86_64 to reduce size.
We do not have seperation of meta data yet, but it would not help much
anyway, as long as we have no filter on rebuild. All files would change
anyway, so the size would be the same. It would actually slow down the
process due to multiple downloads.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=302354