Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Friday 06 June 2008 13:49:33 Josef Reidinger ste napísal:
> Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> > Josef Reidinger wrote:
> > > Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> > > > Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > > You confuse use-cases. Other people want zypper to behave like smart:
> > > > > download all packages and then install in one transaction. Josef's
> > > > > hack only does the first part :)
> > > >
> > > > OK, I was actually writing about the use-case from FATE and bugzilla
> > > > and mailing-lists where users want exactly this ;)
> > > >
> > > > Yes, for zypper, this might work ... but does it make sense to
> > > > implement code that couldn't be reused? In the times of libzypp :)?
> > > >
> > > > L.
> > >
> > > It can be reused, it is dry run policy in commit in libzypp. Only
> > > keepPackages must be allowed to don't delete downloaded files after
> > > fake install.
> >
> > I'm adraid this doesn't work for installation with limited resources
> > (memory, disk space), by default all sources during installation se
> > keep_packages=false (please, remember the bug we had recently in
> > installation).
> >
> > And moreover downloading and installing in threads is faster than first
> > downloading and then installing. And this is what our users want too.
> >
> > L.
>
> If everything work good this is not hard. In commit code it is
> separated, only we need instead providing file when needed, provide it
> to queue (producer and consumer) and install when queue is not empty.
> But if something happen what to do? Do we expect more then one failure
> (because download and install can both cause fail), also I am now sure
> if libzypp is prepared for multithread aplication. Also we must provide
> two progress, one for download and one for installation. Does YaST
> expect multithread libzypp? 

IIRC, Duncan has a half-finished patch for download in threaded way.

Stano
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