Feature changed by: lslezak Feature #303517, revision 8 Title: Configure a cronjob for refreshing repositories openSUSE-11.1: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: lslezak@novell.com Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Autorefresh configured repositories at certain times, this could be on certain days, or time of day, etc. A mockup and more details are in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346966 Discussion: #1: flucifredi@novell.com (2008-06-13 15:12:52) there are some caveats I can think of requiring silent fail (for instance, a laptop), or requiring randomization (not hitting NCC with a volley all at the same time), but I think the idea is good. #2: dmacvicar@novell.com (2008-07-07 11:13:37) If you think you can make it work in a reliable way, please present a concept. Right now PackageKit and updater applets do refresh often before checking for updates so the system repos _are_ refreshed. So I don't see much value in this feature (unless a concept is presented). #3: visnov@novell.com (2008-07-07 12:34:19) (reply to #2) We have a concept in the automatic online update configuration. #4: jsrain@novell.com (2008-07-07 12:58:59) (reply to #3) You mean running online update from cron? It should involve metadata refresh, but I do not see any reason for a separate metadata download from cron. + #5: lslezak@novell.com (2008-07-09 10:30:09) (reply to #4) + The feature should allow to disable "autorefresh" flag for all + repositories so the package management can be started quickly without + connecting to network. The cronjob would keep the metadata uptodate. + Of course, there might be a problem when metadata are changed too often + on the server, but in my opinion that's not a usual case in the real + world. -- SUSE Feature Tool: http://partnerfate.suse.de/?rm=feature_show&id=303517