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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] repository metatdata download times
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2016-12-06 20:20:08
Message-ID: 2f3a363f-2777-ea12-ab7b-e741494e9e9a () telefonica ! net
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On 2016-12-06 20:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:23:05 +0100
> "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-12-06 00:54, Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> When I run software update, it says it is updating the repositories
>>> and this takes some time (seemingly a long time). Tonight I noticed
>>> that it claims to be downloading at over 600 k(something)/second.
>>> That seems to me to be sufficiently fast that the changes in the
>>> repositories since the last time I donloaded them (yesterday)
>>> should take almost no time.
>>
>> It doesn't download the "changes", it downloads some big files, fully.
> 
> Exactly. My question is why? (Or WTF in modern parlance)

How exactly would you download the changes?

Please define the method and data structures that you propose in detail.

Hint: it is not that simple.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)


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