On 06/12/2009 08:14 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Freitag, den 12.06.2009, 05:34 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>> I don't see what it buys our users if they get one big update over 2 small >> ones. > > In most cases the biggest part (consuming time and cpu cycles) of the > updates is not installing them but everything else like checking for new > packages, downloading the metadata, This portion of the list is saved. > calculating dependencies, > downloading the packages and running the transaction test. Especially > for small updates this takes much more time than the actual "rpm -U" > part. > But this portion of your list is dependent on the size of the transaction so it isn't going to halve the time to go from two small updates to a single large update here. -Toshio
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