El 2/11/2016 12:16 p. m., "Adam Williamson" <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 08:50 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On a related note, why on earth is the main Fedora repo set to expire
> > every two weeks? (and its -source and -debuginfo every week??) It's not
> > supposed to change *ever* for a released distro version now is it?
>
> You know, this may be me being dumb, but this question prompted me to
> wonder...can't we do something better than metadata expiry and complete
> re-download for repos that use the mirrormanager metalinks?
>
> The metalinks already provide checksums and timestamps for the
> metadata. So instead of dumbly going out and re-downloading the entire
> metadata at hardcoded intervals, couldn't we rather just check if the
> 'latest' metadata (according to the metalink) has changed since the
> last time we ran, or something along those lines, and only actually
> download the metadata if so? Wouldn't that save us a lot of wasted
> metadata downloads?
+1 and +1 to have dnf and packagekit sharing the same metadata
Why do not include a note in Fedora docs or release notes alerting users about the default configuration and posible high data download and instructions to disable background process if the user want? This could help in the very short time.
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