https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346579 User landemaine@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346579#c1 Summary: Speed up update process dramatically Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Update Problems AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: landemaine@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- On my computer, the update process takes more than half an hour. This is not normal. It should be much faster than that. I think there are way too many TCP/IP connections. The initial process of downloading a whole bunch of files to build the new list of RPMs takes a long, long time. Here's what I suggest, make sure this is feasable: 1. Make the list of names and versions of installed applications on the user computer (this list can be saved in a file already so that the computer doesn't have to build it again, and it can be edited only when new software is installed, not to lose time having to build it every time) 2. Compress this list using 7-Zip (ideally) or BZip2 3. Send it to the repository 4. The repository compares this list against its own 5. It builds a list of names and versions of the applications that need to be updated and compress this list 6. It sends this list to the user computer 7. The user sees the list of applications that need to be updated and approves the update 8. The user computer starts downloading the updates and installs them as they are downloaded. While new updates are being installed, others are being downloaded in the background, instead of downloading and installing sequentially: 1. Download update #1 2. Install update #1 3. Download update #2 4. Install update #2 I think it will be much faster. -- 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.