Per Jessen wrote:
suse@rio.vg wrote:
"Installation" of what?
Of an entire system.
The initial install has never been the problem.
How long does it take in 10.2 to add a new source, bring up the software management, find the program you want, and install it? (and no, the new repo can't be connected to you via lan)
Sorry, that's all I use, so I can't say.
Well, that's where the problem has been.
I'm guessing that the connection speed to the repo is key.
In 10.1 a lot of the lack of speed was due to Yast/Zmd/rug, not the access-speed to the source. I always install from local sources, and I guarantee 10.2 is a lot faster.
That may be the case, but when zen/rug decides to repeatedly download the same large repodata files over and over, that's the problem we're talking about! It's the massive delays every time you bring up software management. It's the throttling of the machine every time you wake up zmd. These are the issues. Once it had things downloaded and parsed, actually installing things may not have been the fastest, but it wasn't sitting there for an hour looking like it had completely crashed. I'm guessing that because it was first designed as a zenworks interface, all design assumptions were that repo's were local or on the lan, since that is the environment ZenWorks was designed for. There's also the problem of random mirror redirection. I discovered this when I tried pointing smart at the build system early on. You might have a good connection to one mirror, but it will redirect you to whatever mirror it feels like, no matter how crappy your connection to it is. Maybe this is why SuSE doesn't seem to get what we're screaming about? They're all connected closely to their local repo, so they're not seeing what we are and are assuming that the slowness you're talking about above is what we've been complaining about. It isn't. Sure, the slowness is less than optimal, but it isn't the hour-long crash look-a-like those of us in the states trying to use repo's in Germany get. If the problem was just the speed of install from a local repo, it could be fixed by the "improvements" they've mentioned. But what we're seeing over here is MUCH worse.