-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 14:37 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> Each configured repository can individually be set to "Refresh" or not. >>> Only when the repository's refresh is "on" does it retrieve the content >>> information every time you launch the Software Management module. > > Where is that explained? :-o > > It sounds very interesting, but even firing the part of yast to change > repos is half an hour. > > ... > >>> Repositories that change infrequently are better left with their refresh >>> off. If they happen to change at some point, you can refresh them >>> manually in the Installation Source YaST module > > Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1).
Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1 >>>> Add to that the dodgy mirrors that come and go based on >>>> the phases of the moon, and you soon learn to keep your >>>> repo list to a minimum. >>> It's true that if a given configured repository is under load too great >>> for it to bear that launching Software Management can take a very long >>> time to get to the point of interaction with that module, but I don't >>> see a practical alternative, since the installer really needs to have >>> up-to-date information on the state of the repository from which it is >>> retrieving packages to install. > > It could use an rsync method instead of full download of the metadata. Most servers don't provide rsync but only HTTP and/or FTP. And it wouldn't help much anyway because when the metadata is generated again, all the metadata files are modified. RPM-MD metadata files are even gzipped, so it's very unlikely rsync's binary deltas would be a big help to reduce the download size. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFmjAQr3NMWliFcXcRAiuMAJ9WxczH0zVSBkZ4Ij2EfbO8UVWPZwCgjWqY ppQtXFMCTs5s2Er2q2GLT5o= =Dqvl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
