Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb Dirk Mueller:
when I update openSUSE with "zypper dup", I have to download nearly 1GB of packages. I seriously doubt that all of them were updated. It takes me hours to get all updates... (slow DSL line) use deltarpms. I think it is actually a bug that we don't produce them for factory distribution - I don't know why actually.
deltarpms are bad for factory users as they require metadata updates _after_ the factory tree is synced out. It would take _even_ longer to get to a new factory snapshot being online.
But we have drpmsync data next to factory, unfortunately no-one is using them. And the question is how can we improve that? Let me ask you guys: would it be ok if you had to mirror either all of factory or a portion of it before you could update from your local mirror?
Greetings, Stephan
I haven't checked the wiki, so I don't know if drpmsync is described there. I haven't paid nay attention to it either. Where it fits in the picture could be made clear in the list. Out of sync mirrors do cause problems, zypper dup will throw up lots of conflicts one day and be largely fine next day when the full synch is completed. The list could be informed of when synch is about to happen and when the mirrors are likely to be fully synched - confusing things happen when the synch is in progress. Emperically I observe that Saturday is a bad day to update, Tuesdays usually OK. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org