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". Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
