rpms/kmenu-gnome/FC-6 kmenu-gnome.spec,1.9,1.10

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Sun Jul 8 10:11:01 UTC 2007


On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:38:10 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote:

> Actually, it's quite a few megabytes of metadata to download because
> someone changes something (in this case, a perfectly correct
> description, FC6 is still Core+Extras),

Often, it's N times a few megabytes of metadata to download, because
mirrors are out-of-sync and offer files that don't pass the checksum
check, and Yum proceeds through the mirror-list until it succeeds or fails
finally. On top of that the wasted time when this blocks access to the
repositories for a normal pirut/yum install.

And to Christopher, yes, you're right, it is worse for larger packages
to release updates for ridiculous changes like this one.




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