On Mon April 16 2007, Mark Goldstein scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On 4/16/07, Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark, > > > > look at TCP/IP traffic. > > There is nothing if you disable refresh for all sources. > > What I see is short burst when it is refreshing update repository, > > packman and guru, and than nothing. The rest of activity is data > > base check. > > Thanks Rajko, > > My impression is that somehow local data base was "invalidated". I > did not analyze traffic, but I used "zypper -v up" and also observed > it in YaST2 message boxes, that both updaters were definitely > re-reading patches and package descriptions from non-oss and oss > repositories on download.opensuse.org. So it took a lot of time (and > during this time I observed zypper indicating [-21879%] readiness of > package file :-( ) . I thought it may be something with my home > machine, but today I ran update on my office machine that was NOT on > the network yesterday and I can see that zypper re-reads oss and > non-oss repositories also. Looks like there is some indication for > updater to re-read repository even though it is marked as > non-refreshable. yup, here it re-reads a local directory that once was used for installation of one program setup that needed lots of little things ( multimedia stuff ) once the things were installed I marked it not to be refreshed and not to be used.. ( status is disabled )
It was read and re-read all the time even tho it's marked disabled . Fortunately it's a small directory, if it were large , or if there were lots of subdirectories it would be a royal pita. -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
