Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Duncan and me watched someone doing "one click install"
at FOSDEM and we noticed that most time (even on 10.3)
is consumed in downloading/refreshing meta data of 
unaffected repositories.

And if you have collected several of these one click
installs, you're downloading meta data a lot. So we
looked what others do and apt and smart require an
explicit refresh if the repository is supposed to be
outdated. So Duncan changed the default of autorefresh
for zypper to no.

Now I figured this has some interesting implications,
namely that kiwi's
zypper --root root sa <repo> <alias>
zypper --root root in zypper

will crash as no-one downloads/refreshes the meta data.
As I think that libzypp shou
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