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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] repository metatdata download times
From:       Dave Howorth <dave () howorth ! org ! uk>
Date:       2016-12-06 21:09:12
Message-ID: 20161206210912.2adb8747 () acer-suse ! lan
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On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:00:08 +0100
Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:

> Op dinsdag 6 december 2016 19:50:26 CET schreef Dave Howorth:
> > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:23:05 +0100
> > 
> > "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> 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)
> 
> If it's up to me, stick to proper phrasing. Makes understanding
> others a bit less complicated IMNSHO. 
> 
> OT.  1 Byte = 8 bits, a factor 8. Which can make a difference in
> speed experience. 
> 
> Which repos are we talking about? The distro's repodata are > 100 MB
> AFAIK, but it's useless to refresh those repos, since they don't
> change after release. 

I don't know. YaST in it's wisdom doesn't let me copy text that it
displays, and it anyway elides the name of the currently downloading
repository with dots. It starts with download.[open]suse and it
finishes with primary.xml.something and there's a big hex number in
between among possibly other things.

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