Am Sonntag, 2. März 2008 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
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 So we looked what others do and apt and smart require an explicit refresh if the repository is supposed to be outdated.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
... sometimes shortcuts drive me crazy :) I think that libzypp should not rely on someone above refreshing explicitly in this case, I added a refreshMeta in cases where the cache could not be build. I wonder if anyone sees a reason not to do it. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org