Re: [opensuse] "Software Manager - offline mode" new yast module needed On Sunday 17 February 2008 04:51:46 am Anton Moiseev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I start "Software Manager" yast module, it takes really much time
> before I see the window with a list of packages -
> it downloads updates for each the repository info xml files in order
> to find out which packages now have updated versions
> in repository etc.
>
> I have 256K ADSL connection, and it takes about 5 minutes the
> "Software Manager" to start.
.
> Switching on/off this flag in repository manager before
> each time I would like to start "Software Manager" is not really good
> solution - I would rather wait few minutes doing something
> else, and then return to it.

Than you can disable automatic refresh for all except update repository and 
use 'zypper ref' from console to refresh them manually. You can also change 
default time in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf to time that you think is fine for you. 
Here is mine:
  repo.refresh.delay = 60
It is valid only for automatic refresh. Manual you can do anytime.

> I could think of suggesting better solutions like optimizing existing
> update process so it would take less time and traffic,
> or creating some kind of background daemon which would update
> repositories periodically, so the would be always almost
> up-to-date, but all this does not sound doable in the nearest time,
> and adding new Yast Module seems to be easy

It is work in progress. More information you can find on yast and zypper 
development lists. See http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists how to 
subscribe. Discussion is usually technical, but I guess that they will 
appreciate comments. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal


