Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Manne Merak wrote:
> >   
> Ye, but Smart still downloads the complete filelist of updates when it
> changes (which is every 2-3 days these days).
> Thats 14Meg every couple of days - I dont have unlimited traffic on my
> DSL so it works out to be an expensive exercise.
> Im not yet completly sure if the new package manager in 11.0 does not do
> this - everyone is very happy with its speed, but it seems no one knows
> it it still downloads the complete update filelists or just diff
> increments?
>
> Manne
> ps. the Smart GUI also still doesnt have a tick box for keeping packages.

Not sure what you're looking for but for example if you enable keeppackages for 
the update repo then it (libzypp) keeps
the delta rpms. What it doesn't do is replace old versions of files with newer 
versions therefore the size of
/var/cache/zypp/packages keeps on increasing. I'm not quite sure if this 
feature was finished in 11.0 but in 11.1 beta1
libzypp seems to detect already cached packages and doesn't download them 
again. You can also specify where the package
cache is located in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
Regards
Dave P

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