On 01/09/2018 02:09 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> […] > >>>>> I really don't understand why we do this "batched" thing to begin with. > >>>> To reduce the constant flow of updates that are very minor or affect >>>> very few mixed in with the major updates that affect lots of people and >>>> are urgent. > >>> But the users were already able to opt to update only weekly. So why force a >>> fixed schedule on them? > >> 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. 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. > >> […] > > BTW, are there technical reasons why the metadata is updated > en bloc and not incrementally like for example delta RPMs, > or is it just that nobody bothered to implement something > like that yet for metadata? There is no implementation that I know of. It's been talked about for many years, but not been implemented. kevin
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