Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

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 outdated.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
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