Rajko M. wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2007 07:57:22 am Igor Jagec wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:44 +0100, Aniruddha wrote: >>> I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of >>> time to finish "Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache". Any >>> ideas what might be the problem? >> Yeah, I noticed that too. Especially when I want to do some trivial >> stuffs with Yast2 (such as changing date and time), since Yast2 >> sometimes reads package database. Anyway, maybe your question is for >> Packman mailing list. >> >> BTW a question to Yast developers, why Yast2 does that? Sometimes that >> can be very annoying. >> >> Cheers! > > Is that 10.2 or 10.3. > > In 10.2 I can confirm behavior, but in 10.3 I can't recall. > > Though, I can't say for date and time module in 10.2, as that is kept in sync > with 'xntpd'. > > Apropos Packman. > So far I recall they had a problem that is fixed, but > /var/cashe/zypp/zypp.db > might be in bad shape. Can you delete it and run YaST > Software Management > or > zypper refresh > to create new zypp.db and then check is it slow again. >
I'll agree with Rajko. 10.2 was God awful slow. 10.3 is relatively fast compared to 10.2. But, what you have to remember is that with "refresh" set to on in yast, yast must download the xml index of all the rpms contained at the repository and then compare that list to the list of rpms installed on your system. When the index contains "new" versions of files, Yast/zypper need to clean the master index that lives on your computer to get rid of the old version information and add the new information. If it get way to slow, then you can delete your local index files and let zypper rebuild them. This has been mentioned in several threads. The question is how slow is slow in your case 30-90 seconds? Or is it start software management, go get a cup of coffee, and just check back to see if it is done yet slow? If the latter, then you might consider wiping your indexes and letting them be rebuilt. Gurus, chime in if you have better numbers on how slow is too slow. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
