On Friday 28 September 2007 04:35:22 Kevin Valko wrote:
I'm really, really impressed with the improvements to package management for 10.3, and I think the vast majority of existing users will be as well. I'm just wondering if we can cut down potential problems in the default install, without relying on pointing to a page in the wiki for de-cluttering the package manager after time ?
Nice to see you like the improvements! We are already discussing how to vacuum the zypp database, and also the rpm database fragmentation number found by Marcus are interesting. We will work on it and try to release an online update for 10.3, at least for the zypp part. For rpm we will see. The biggest "?" is about operation time. This cleanup also takes lot of time and is cpu and IO intensive. The right moment to do it is after heavy database writting, that is refresh. Cron job also was suggested as an idea. But consideer the cron job too random about "when" to do it, and also problematic f it start working when you are using YaST or the applet is checking for updates (it is safe, but you will get a lock message). Our current idea is to do it on refresh but using a time threshold. And making it configurable of course. More ideas are welcome. Cheers Duncan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org