2009/1/8 Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>:
Mounting repositories over HTTP would be a great idea too. FUSE has suitable filesystems.. that would save the ridiculous notion right now where downloading over the net is a "download, unpack" affair compared to NFS, local repo on a hard disk or .. I'd like to say DVD, but my experience is it always "downloaded" them from CD media before unpacking it. This sort of stuff can double install times.
That could be pipelined though, so either the rpm install, or the downloads happen for free in parallel with the next time consuming part of the operation. If you're going to have to get the whole file (and you are), then there's not really a big win, processing the header and then blocking. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org