On Thursday 27 April 2006 09:24, you wrote: > On 26 Apr 2006 at 20:17, Martin Schlander wrote: > > Another thing - It seems everytime I boot my rc Zen-updater starts off by > > downloading 80 megs of data. I have added factory to it, but I've removed > > the check in "catalogs" - but this doesn't seem to change the behaviour.
Ulrich Windl wrote: > If this is true, it would be an absolute blocker for any modem user. That > would be roughly 5 hours for my Modem to download these 80MB (protocol > overhead not considered). Well, I monitor my network connection with knemo - and on every boot of rc2 80 megs are downloaded - I'm pretty sure zmd or zen-updater is behind this. I have Factory, Extra, Update, Guru and Packman added as sources (I added the to yast). In Zen I have removed the checks for all other catalogs than the update one. After downloading all this data it also says "no updates available". Whereas before I "deactivated" the catalogs it suggested to update to some packman packages. I have no idea what's going on - but it raises some questions. Should Zen-updater download repodata for services that are added - but not subscribed to (unchecked under "catalogs") when checking for available updates? How often does Zen check for updates? Daily? on every boot? Can this be configured somewhere? I don't boot my rc2 that often so I can't be sure how often it does it. Does this problem only exist because factory is changing. That is, if I had added a stable frozen factory inst source, would Zen know that and not download all the repodata all the time to check for updates? Another question - how is the clueless home user supposed to know the difference between important official security updates and bleeding edge third party packages - like Guru's Amarok betas (no pun intended Pascal, I love that you're building those betas) - when updating with Zen? Will there be some kind of colour code or something helping the user understand which updates are important - and which are less important and perhaps even risky (once the clueless user has added all kinds of repos thinking they're all idiot proof). cb400f PS. Ulrich Windl mailed me directly - I assume by mistake. Also by mistake I mailed him back with the post above. Damn modern technology ;) .. omg.. Now I mailed houghi directly.. sorry guys. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
