On 2/28/2008 at 14:34, Stephan Kulow
wrote: Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb Dirk Mueller: when I update openSUSE with "zypper dup", I have to download nearly 1GB of packages. I seriously doubt that all of them were updated. It takes me hours to get all updates... (slow DSL line)
use deltarpms. I think it is actually a bug that we don't produce them for factory distribution - I don't know why actually.
deltarpms are bad for factory users as they require metadata updates _after_ the factory tree is synced out. It would take _even_ longer to get to a new factory snapshot being online.
But we have drpmsync data next to factory, unfortunately no-one is using them. And the question is how can we improve that? Let me ask you guys: would it be ok if you had to mirror either all of factory or a portion of it before you could update from your local mirror?
I think the Factory tree is rather to big for everybody just to mirror it to install his own notebook / computer to the last factory snapshot. I normally do this about once a week on my system. And I'm pretty sure all those installations have a small subset of what's available in the factory tree installed... so most likely I'm still faster updating my system, downloading the needed RPMs using zypper/<whatever tool> than first synching the factory tree to my system. Should I have misunderstood something completely now, please forgive me. Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org