Hello everyone I have a suggestion about making our package system more efficent for both us and users. Right now each time whenever a user try to update package index s/he must download about 50Mb per day for package index. This might be not a big size/deal for europe or usa on the other hand this is a big problem for dial up connections or slow connections for rest of world. My suggestion is based on just like delta package system of us. DNF or old yum might send current index's date and md5/sha signature so server can just send the diff of that date and current package index instead of sending whole index. It might look like it will be extra calculation or load for server but we can overcome this problem just caching 1 week's diffs for users. If the user's package index date/signature is older than 1 week then servers can just send whole index like right now but if it in 1 week period it can send just cached diff. It will be just kilobytes instead of 50 Megabytes. And if the user uses a flag with dnf like --nocache server can send user whole index instead of delta index. I believe this will reduce our network bandwith usage and also users will be much happy about their data usage. I hope I'm not sending this in wrong list. Ömer Fadıl Usta Sevenhill on freenode omerusta@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
