Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (116 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 20, Duncan Mac-Vicar wrote:

> > 2. Tools which should install a package. They should work as fast as
> > possible. we can pay the price of installing package which already has an
> > update at least in some cases.
> 
> This assumption is false in most cases. If the metadata is old then what will 
> happen is that you will solve a old package that will probably match (because 
> packages usually doesnt change dependencies often), but the link (filename) 
> will be wrong and the package will fail.
> 
> This exposes a failure in metadata design, only updating the filenames will be 
> a quite option for the use case you mention.
> 
> Your usecase works if the repo keeps the old version of the package as well 
> (or more).

It works a s well, if commit first downloads all packages. 

The bad case is that we find a package being unavailable DURING commit.
If we spot it in advance there is no problem. You just wasted a little 
time to solve the old stuff.

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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