What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 18:48:46 UTC 2008
Robert Scheck wrote:
>
>>> Of course I understand, that dbus is nice and so on, but I'm not seeing
>>> how it is really useful. Again, the push happens about every 24 hours and
>>> the cache of the downloaded files by yum expires after maybe one hour, if
>>> I am not wrong here. Why do we generate such unnecessary load and traffic?
>> Because you do not know *when* the update push happens. And there are
>> third-party repos which sometimes push several updates a day.
>
> maybe true, but do users really need to be so up-to-date? Mirrors also need
> time to synchronize, as we learned in this thread, right? I'm still lacking
> a good reason why we're checking each yum interaction for updated metadata
> as far as I can see.
Being far out-of-date doesn't help avoid doing your update in the middle
of a push with mirrors out of sync, or are you proposing some sort of
fixed schedule with update blackouts while the mirrors catch up?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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