Re: [opensuse] YAST - Pet Peave - Why refresh before displaying the list of Community Repositories

On 24/04/2008, Ken Schneider wrote:

Benji Weber pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On 23/04/2008, James Knott wrote:

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I also agree. Another thing would be to improve the update time. Is it actually checking every file? Can it check some time stamp or md5sum to see if the repository has been updated? As it is, if it checks and then you open software management again, it has to check all over again.

For each repository it downloads a tiny file (repomd.xml) containing the timestamp and checksum of the other metadata files. The other metadata are only downloaded if the repository has changed.

Check the Subject: line again. The bitch is about refreshing the repos when all that is being performed is _seeing_ which repos are available. By all means refresh if new repos are added.

The message I responded to mentioned software management module, and was asking about how the refresh was implemented. I'm well aware that refreshing repositories just to show a list of them is unnecessary. zypper doesn't do it, only the YaST module. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org