Den Sunday 22 April 2007 09:59:47 skrev Marcus Meissner:
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:06:54PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 22 Apr 2007 05:38:30 NZST +1200, Martin Schlander wrote:
But the problem is not the downloading of updated metadata, which usually takes a few seconds tops.
Uhhm, you're talking about downloading the updates/repodata/*.xml.gz files? For the 10.2 updates that's about 13MB currently. I'd be very interested to hear how you download that over a dialup at a realistic 3kbyte/s in "a few seconds tops".
Its more like 5 MB. others.xml.gz is not downloaded usually.
Also the update source is not relevant here is it? When opensuseupdater tells you that updates are available the update repo has already been refreshed hasn't it? So it won't need to download new metadata again at YOU startup. The "problem" is the other repos that most people add, Packman and Guru etc. - and this is an even smaller download from what I can tell. But of course any download on dialup is big. I wonder how many people do Windows-update or apt-get upgrade on dialup for comparison. I think for most users parsing metadata takes way longer than downloading updated metadata. At least for me parsing metadata is perhaps 80% of package manager startup time. I do have comparatively high bandwidth I guess (2 mbit), but it's not like I'm on 100 mbit. And I also have an above average machine I guess, and still parsing takes sooo long. Maybe it would still make sense to not update all repos at YOU startup if that would be safe. But I still think many people confuse the metadata-parsing with repo-updating. And I maintain that parsing is the biggest culprit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org