On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:37, jdd wrote: > the point is an update of the data is necessary only when Yast install > don't find on the server the package it looks for.
YaST doesn't browse server to see what is there, or ask for <file><version> and when it can't find it than update local database. If there is change on server, probably written in one small file that is fast to download, it will download changed files. The present feeling that is still slow is produced by fact that in Beta as installation source is used Factory that has always a lot of changes, and YaST has to update status very often, most of the time on every start. Once 10.3 get released the biggest repository (oss) that takes most of the time for update will be static, there will be no need for update and YaST will fly. That is what I have seen when Beta2 was released. Factory was frozen few days, and YaST sw_single was starting very fast. Of course there is place for improvement. One that I really would like to see is YOU. It should not look for other repositories than update. The part of it's function, security updates, requires known source of update, you can't allow 3rd party repositories to get in game trough dependencies, and that makes scan of all repositories pointless. Second possible speedup would be to use few mirrors at once if user has high speed Internet. Smart uses multiple connections, though I don't know is it with different mirrors. It downloads metadata very fast. That feeling is amplified with graphic layout that shows many downloads at once. > you could also make this update nightly Right, but as mentioned above with Factory it will make not much difference, and later with static repo it would disappear as a problem. Besides, not many desktop users leave computer on all the time. Second, main number of complain comes from users used to wait until task is done, because many GUI programs tend to be designed to ask for permanent attention, insted to ask whatever has to be asked in the begin and then do their job in background. Even with very slow software management it is possible to do other tasks, and from time to time check what is done. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
