On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:47:03 +0100 > Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > without completely rewriting how we compose the trees this is not a > possibility. Bill's mail reads a bit different ... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
