-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. ...
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).
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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFma6StTMYHG2NR9URAvgdAJwLqoLBGnw04YqChWXvoGMw4ma2AgCfQmxK TBn80yLlb2amRFgfA40feho= =EPIu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org