On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Sa Juni 9 2007, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > coming from Extras where it was just fire and forget. While that might be > > fun for the maintainer, is it fun for the user? Is it fun for the user > > with a slow connection? > > A slow connection is never fun ;-). But seriously, nobody is forced to update > and thanks to bodhi and iirc the yum-security plugin[1] it is even possible > to install only security updates. Also I guess there are many updates from > Extras Packages, that are released now because of the Freeze, so the amount > of updates will be less the next weeks. And the user in me likes up to date > software very much. And to make it more fun for users with a slow connection, > yum-presto will help a lot more. But maybe there should be also delta-xml > files for the repository metadata, because it takes very long to download > these, too, with a slow connection. > > Regards, > Till > > [1] But I don't know, whether or not it is already in Fedora 7 yum-security is in Fedora 7 repos, but will not yet work properly with Fedora 7 updates at the moment, as bodhi does not currently insert the updateinfo.xml into the repository yet. We recently changed how we create our update repositories, so I need tweak bodhi to have it insert this updateinfo post-mashing. Give me a day or so and I'll have it in there. luke -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
