On Friday, March 2, 2018 12:25:05 PM CET Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday, March 2, 2018 2:44:19 AM CET stan wrote: > >> On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:29:45 -0000 > >> "Farhad Mohammadi Majd" <farhadbenyamin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > Hello, in Debian (9, stable), size of all the official repositories > >> > metadata is maximum 10MB, while in Fedora, today I ran "dnf update" > >> > for first time after installing Fedora 27 > >> > (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6) and it took 20+58MB for two > >> > official repositories! > >> > > >> > It is really too high, why there is such difference? why don't > >> > optimize it and fix this problem? > >> > >> I don't have any intimate knowledge of this. But you are comparing > >> apples and oranges. Apt and dnf. Either the format of the meta data > >> must be very different for the two, or apt must send much less meta > >> data. > > > > Yes, IMO the amount of information in metadata creates the difference. > > > >> You aren't alone in complaining about this. Whenever an update occurs, > >> all the meta data has to be downloaded again. People on limited > >> quantity connections find this onerous. There has been discussion of > >> making the meta data update an incremental update, but the format of > >> meta data doesn't lend itself well to doing this. And the delta files > >> would put a lot of extra files on repo hosts. > > > > I doubt delta files for metadata would cause significant storage problems > > (compare that with the size of RPMs). You don't have to keep the deltas > > forever, it would be matter of quality of implementation.. > > > > Do we have some RFE bug for this, or some feature page? This is #1 issue in > > yum/dnf world for quite some time. > > > > There's an ongoing discussion in rpm-ecosystem@[1] and > infrastructure@[2] about an optimized delta repodata format. So... > It's coming. :) > > [1]: http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2018-February/000541.html > [2]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/4TJOGXT35Q2UHWYQA66FCCHCF5DOEXO5/ Do we already have an RFE so I could subscribe to be informed about progress? Pavel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
