On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:10:17PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 19 August 2006 12:52, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:06:00AM -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Im adding http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/sus e/ to my install source. It takes forever..... After bit of sniffing I found that its downloading http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/sus e/repodata/filelists.xml.gz this file is 17M; after its done I click Finish and then it downloads the file again!!, and again when I open Yast Software Management, and again when I click on the Update Manager thingy on the Panel. This is way to much downloading of the same file. I did uncheck the Refresh flag on the source.
Anyone else seeing this?
Welcome to the world of Zen/Rug. You can thank Novell for this little gem of a package management system. What you're seeing isn't a bug, but the way it was designed to work. At the last minute in 10.1's development, they scrapped the old working system for this one. Not only is it slow and inefficient, it can't even handle delta rpm's like the old system could. This is why many consider 10.1 to be a broken release. The initial release version of Zen/Rug wouldn't even update at all.
I recommend scrapping it entirely and moving to apt or smart for package management and using fou4s for updates.
fou4s: http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/ smart: http://labix.org/smart apt: (I don't have a link handy, but I think you can get it off ftp.suse.com)
This has nothing to do with it. The /suse/ is superflous, it will fallback to "old style" packages if not used, which is smaller.
Marcus:
Explain that a bit more please. WHAT will fall back to the old style?
The ftp source has 2 kind of repos. - SUSE Tags Source (old style), metadata is in: suse/setup/descr/packages* - YUM Source, metadata is in: suse/repodata/
Do you mean You will work again? Are you saying simply removing the /suse/ in the url will disable the whole ZEN/RUG abomination?
No. Ciao, Marcus