Andreas Jaeger wrote:
We're working on improving this. 10.1 does more than 9.3 did, so it takes longer - but it shouldn't be that bad. I expect 10.2 to see further speed-ups.
"further speed-ups" meaning it will take 10 minutes instead of 15? That would be a major speed up, but still broken. Do you believe there is room in rug/zmd's current design that will allow for an order of magnitude increase in speed? I'm not seeing it. Aside from delta rpm support (which would greatly reduce the download time), you're still doing complete repodata updates on every wake up and every package install. You need to re-think the design to separate repodata updates and package installs. There's a reason systems like apt do this. When you don't have a top of the line machine connected via lan to the repo, updates are incredibly expensive.