Richard Hughes (hughsient@xxxxxxxxx) said: > Hi all, > > I'd like to ask for comments on a feature I need for the Fedora > Application Installer. The current yum backend in PackageKit does > something like this: > > * yum install foo > * depsolve transaction using cached metadata > * download foo-0.1.noarch.rpm > * error! foo-0.1.noarch.rpm doesn't exist > * download latest repomd, primary > * re-depsolve > * download latest filelists > * continue to re-depsolve > * download foo-0.2.noarch.rpm > * install foo using librpm > > Now, we do this as the metadata is cached on the client side for up to > a week as we don't want to unconditionally update the metadata for > every transaction, but we don't know if we can download the package > without downloading all the metadata beforehand. This is incompatible > with the swish UX in the application installer where we can search for > things straight away without having "Downloading..." in the UI > appearing at odd times. So my proposal is thus: > > 1. We retain old packages on the mirrors for a minimum of 7 days. > 2. We regenerate the metadata on every compose like before > 3. We only include the latest package version in the metadata > 4. If the user is installing an "old" package we check if the new > package is a security or important update and re-download all metadata > if so > > Point 3 means that the metadata size does not explode, and CLI tools > like yum don't spend minutes depsolving a much larger set of packages. > Although this increases the amount of space required on the mirrors > (by about 15% for fedora-19 by my approximation), the amount of > bandwidth saved is huge. By my calculations, over the last 7 weeks > [with ~10 offline updates, and hundreds of 'yum' commands] over 60% of > my traffic from the mirrors is metadata! > > FWIW; 1,2,3 is what Debian and Ubuntu do. Comments welcome, thanks. I could see doing this, but it is a non-trivial change to how the repositories are made, and there aren't really any resources assigned to work on that. I can give some pointers to where and what would need changed, if you're interested in looking at it. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
