On Uto, 2007-09-25 at 13:56 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
* Igor Jagec <igorm5@vip.hr> [Sep 25. 2007 13:49]:
Throttle is not on the list yet. Can you provide a use-case for it ? You meant on something like that: # zypper update --limit-rate=80k # zypper update --throttle=80k No, I meant a description why and when such an option would be useful.
This option is for instance useful for us who share Internet connection with neighbors. Or when we don't want to use all bandwidth we have for updating system or installing software. The problem is that I share Internet connection with my neighbors via wireless network and if I do some big downloads without bandwidth limitation, they (neighbors) are sometimes unable to use Internet at all. Broadband Internet connection (ADSL in our case) is very expensive here in Croatia, so we usually share Internet connection. I know, maybe we should have QoS or something, but we do not have implemented such advanced solutions. It's a bit overkill for our small network.
I have another question about Zypper, do you have any plan to include Rollback support? Or at least support for some rpm transacrion set, such as noscripts, notriggers, nodocs, test, repackage... Rollback is a nice feature and I use it on my Fedora 7 machines. Yes, this is planned.
That's great, thanks!
However, the term 'rollback' has quite different meanings depending on whom you talk to. As we support a wide range of architectures with our SUSE Linux software, rollback for e.g. zSeries (IBM s/390) users means 'bit identical' reversion to a previous state. Thats rather hard to achieve with rpm.
I didn't know that, thanks. -- Igor Jagec