January 9, 2018 9:59 PM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> To save all the Fedora users in the world from having to update metadata >> for minor changes. Since there's a hourly dnf makecache every user in >> the world pulls down new metadata ever time we update a repo. > > So to save people the download, you make a change that totally defeats the > point of dnf checking for updates every hour to begin with? > >> If we update a repo for some minor enhancements it means everyone in the >> world has to pay for that. If we just push all those out every tuesday and >> don't update those unless there's something urgent we save everyone a >> lot of bandwith and us computing time/resources. > > This does not work in practice because there are always updates that are not > batched. > >> There are definitely more days when there are no updates for a >> particular repo now. Of course there would be even more if you (or those >> who do likewise) wouldn't skip batched, but probibly we need to explain >> why more clearly. > > Are there really? The last couple days, there were basically daily pushes > with around 2 updates each. So, if there ARE updates to be pushed (marked urgent?) and we update metadata ANYWAY, this is a good point to flush everything from batched in this push. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
