Re: [opensuse] YAST - Pet Peave - Why refresh before displaying the list of Community Repositories

Benji Weber pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 23/04/2008, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I also agree. Another thing would be to improve the
update time. Is it actually checking every file? Can it check some time
stamp or md5sum to see if the repository has been updated? As it is, if it
checks and then you open software management again, it has to check all over
again.

For each repository it downloads a tiny file (repomd.xml) containing
the timestamp and checksum of the other metadata files. The other
metadata are only downloaded if the repository has changed.


Check the Subject: line again. The bitch is about refreshing the repos when all that is being performed is _seeing_ which repos are available. By all means refresh if new repos are added.

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Ken Schneider
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