-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-09 at 16:56 +0100, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The Sunday 2007-12-09 at 13:36 +0100, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
I had bad experience with opensuse.org repo, YaST takes ages to start. Maybe you enjoy very fast Internet connection? I live in a rural area in Portugal - the weather is much better here!
This was true for 10.2 but the repository handling in 10.3 was improved a lot!
Yes, that's true, but you just pick out your old modem from the cupboard, and try updating anything using the modem. Then we talk. [...]
But this problem is completely independent of the time starting YaST takes! The main repository changes seldomly, see http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse/repodata/ It has been never changed since the release of 10.3. Thus, there is no strong need to activate the automatic refresh in YaST for such a repository. Consequently, there will not take place any data transfer when starting YaST, AFAIK.
Maybe... I didn't think of that. However... when you are about to start the software management module you need to start the network too, even if it's only to find updates to packages in the dvd. The user doesn't know at what point is the network going to be needed, so the network (ie, the modem) would be started at the start - or on demand, if so configured. And if you configure a repo like packman, things get much worse.
BTW: IIRC, Robert never talked about "slow updates" but had problems after adding the main repository in the past. Thus, the new subject is somewhat misleading, IMHO.
Well, yes, my choice was not very fortunate. O:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXISUtTMYHG2NR9URAjLKAJ9lttm2dI6HFnMiuthYo1FUXWjd+wCfYTRV FgBZhbec9KH10SdpeeVaChU= =j5wG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org