https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346966 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346966#c9 --- Comment #9 from Ricardo Cruz <rpmcruz@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt> 2010-09-08 11:40:51 UTC --- This strategy for refreshing the repository cache seems to be a huge time saver for those of us that use zypper, or the graphical software manager, regularly. Anyway, something to be wary of is that if the repo cache is too outdated, and some package versions were replaced by more recent ones, then this could create havoc during the installation procedure. Remember that zypp downloads and installs package per package. So, if a package is missing and it was going to be installed as a dependency, zypp will only notice it after it has already installed a few others, and then all that sub-branch of the package family may be in jeopardy. It is therefor important for repositories to agree on keeping old packages for a period of X days. And this utility shouldn't let the user defer the auto-refresh schedule beyond those X days (or, at least, strongly advise her against doing so). Maybe there is already such a safety system in place. I dunno. I just saw no mentions it, so I thought of bringing it up. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.