On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 18:55, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dne 01. 11. 20 v 11:58 clime napsal(a): > > Hello! > > > > First of all, I don't really know what I am talking about here but I > > noticed the `dnf update` operation downloads among other things > > `filelists.xml` (optionally compressed by zchunk, thanks Jonathan > > Dieter!!!) and I remember there was a thread on devel mailing quite > > some time ago by Zbyszek from which I understood this data is only > > needed when filesystem paths are used as package requirements or when > > a fs path is specified as direct argument to `dnf install`. > > > This was the case for Yum, but have never the case for DNF since its > beginning. I think there were some reasons, such as that the solver in > case it finds it needs them would need to stop, download the data and > start from beginning. Other reason could be that nobody optimized it yet. > > Anyway, I guess you'll find more info in Bugzilla. Hello vit, thank you very much, I will try to look it up. M. > > > V. > > > > Could we > > then, please, trigger download of this file only if and when needed > > and not sooner? It seems to take more than half of the total download > > size e.g. for fedora-32-updates repo so it could improve repodata > > download times quite significantly. Again, I don't really know what I > > am talking about here but this came to my mind recently so I wanted to > > write it down just in case it would be possible :). > > > > Thank you very much > > clime > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
