-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-01-01 at 14:37 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Each configured repository can individually be set to "Refresh" or not. Only when the repository's refresh is "on" does it retrieve the content information every time you launch the Software Management module.
Where is that explained? :-o
It sounds very interesting, but even firing the part of yast to change repos is half an hour.
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Repositories that change infrequently are better left with their refresh off. If they happen to change at some point, you can refresh them manually in the Installation Source YaST module
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
Add to that the dodgy mirrors that come and go based on the phases of the moon, and you soon learn to keep your repo list to a minimum. It's true that if a given configured repository is under load too great for it to bear that launching Software Management can take a very long time to get to the point of interaction with that module, but I don't see a practical alternative, since the installer really needs to have up-to-date information on the state of the repository from which it is retrieving packages to install.
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. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFmjAQr3NMWliFcXcRAiuMAJ9WxczH0zVSBkZ4Ij2EfbO8UVWPZwCgjWqY ppQtXFMCTs5s2Er2q2GLT5o= =Dqvl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org