https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216131 ------- Comment #4 from robin.knapp@fujitsu-siemens.com 2006-10-30 02:41 MST ------- (In reply to comment #2)
Note that the lack of compression does not really matter too much for the released product because the large base inst-source never changes.
Okay, I agree. That's mainly a "problem" with factory, I think.
The statement in comment 0 is partially false because if an installation source did not change since the last refresh, YaST downloads only the 42 Bytes large "media" file and not everything, even if the source is set to autorefresh. Patch sources (with YUM metadata) are the only ones which ever change for a released product, and these are already compressed. So the only point where it would make a difference is the first time you add the large base inst-source.
Well, I might have triggered a bug. Everytime I called the installation source dialogue, the metadata was reloaded again... Tried it three times consecutively iirc. Then after removing and re-adding the installation source, it did not refresh everything (only the media information). That's okay. But then I opened the software installation dialogue and it started to reload everything again. Maybe there's a bug in zmd/libzypp caching. This evening I will remove all sources, add the factory tree, refresh the media information (to verify the cache ist ok) and then check if it's loaded again on opening the software installation dialogue. If it will reload everything again (cache miss?), I'll attach the y2base and zmd logfiles.
This does not justify the risks of such a late change IMHO.
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