On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 13:31 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > > > > We had some discussions on this a few years ago, but this never went anywhere. > > > (I did a quick search, but can't find the ticket now.) But the idea was that > > > dnf would load "main" metadata by default, and then load "filepath" metadata > > > if needed and restart the transaction. Our Packaging Guidelines forbid filepath > > > dependencies (except for a small set of directories which are in the "main" part), > > > so normal rpm transactions don't need the "filepath" metadata. It is only > > > needed for non-confirming rpms and when the user does something like > > > 'dnf install /some/strange/path'. > > > > AIUI this is already a part of dnf5. > > I would love to hear more about this. > > A quick test suggests that on F37 dnf5 at least downloads the same metadata that dnf4: > > $ sudo dnf upgrade > Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 46 kB/s | 12 kB 00:00 > Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 1.3 MB/s | 2.4 MB 00:01 > ... > > $ sudo dnf5 upgrade > Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 44.4 KiB/s | 12.4 KiB | 00m00s > Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 724.6 KiB/s | 2.0 MiB | 00m03s > ... It's just my recollection from an earlier discussion on this list about dnf5. Possibly I misremembered, or it's a plan rather than already implemented? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
