Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/03/2008, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.

>  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  outdated.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.

Will it still at least warn that the repository is out of date? It
would be worse to have package download failures because the
repository metadata is outdated. Of course at the moment we're
downloading an extra 5mb each time just to find out that someone's
added one extra package to packman, so diffed metadata would help
greatly.

BTW you can specify in the YMP to not keep the repository after
installation, the ones on packages.opensuse-community.org do this.

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Benjamin Weber
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