On Wednesday 31 October 2007 05:24:47 am Igor Jagec wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:15 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 October 2007 07:57:22 am Igor Jagec wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Is that 10.2 or 10.3. > > 10.3 > > > Though, I can't say for date and time module in 10.2, as that is kept in > > sync with 'xntpd'. > > Maybe that has something to do with GNOME, which I use, and the new gtk2 > based Yast modules. > > > 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 > > I did that, and I got 10 MB smaller database. Seems to be a bit faster.
This is about things that will be implemented when time comes, but right now has be dome manually: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Speed_up_Package_Manager_Stack Additionally check what is marked to be refreshed in YaST > Software Repositories I have quite a few in list, but very few enabled and currently only update can be refreshed. Apropos lock mentioned in another post we had that problem discussed in thread ' Accessing package management failed' check /var/run/ directory for stale yast.pid or zypp.pid. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
