http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586960 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586960#c0 Summary: fate #305945 causes extreme update channel metadata overhead Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: SLES 11 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mmarek@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: tschmidt@novell.com, ihno@novell.com, coolo@novell.com, meissner@novell.com, mge@novell.com, okir@novell.com, ro@novell.com, visnov@novell.com, dmueller@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: No +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #582907 (for SLE) +++ while investigating why the metadata of the 11.2 update channel grew, we noticed that every kernel-* flavor now exports around 8000-9000 provides, which add to about 3.5 MB of compressed (!) primary.xml.gz overhead. for opensuse 11.2, this overhead is fixed, however for SLE11-SP1 it will grow overtime, because we never delete old packages from SLE update channel. that means if we do kernel updates for 7 years (roughly 1 kernel update per month), we'll have 210 MB (!) of compressed metadata just for the kernel, which means 8 minutes of download time for an average DSL connection. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.