-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 11:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1).
Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1
It doesn't explain there what removing ZMD would affect. | Sources here can either be added using YaST, or by using the rug | command-line tool, or thirdly by using the excellent Smart package | manager. Since there were problems with ZMD (of which rug is the | command-line tool) we recommend that you use the Smart Package Manager, | instead of YaST and rug. If removing ZMD means not using Yast, I don't see how that would solve Yast speed problem!
It could use an rsync method instead of full download of the metadata.
Most servers don't provide rsync but only HTTP and/or FTP. And it wouldn't help much anyway because when the metadata is generated again, all the metadata files are modified. RPM-MD metadata files are even gzipped, so it's very unlikely rsync's binary deltas would be a big help to reduce the download size.
The repodata directory of packman contains about 2.5 MB for 10.2 and more than double for 10.1; yours is about 2 Mb. That's very noticiable for a modem. If than could be reduced somehow, it would be very nice. For a modem that means... seven minutes download. For an adsl at 100KB/S it's under a minute, not important compared to the half an hour it takes processing or who knows what. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFmjf/tTMYHG2NR9URAhsGAJ91004/A+VpTnGxppv8VFw9VAAMJwCfVk9y rMX7zUAC4m5XNanx1x10TG0= =YXul -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org