mirrors vs. time taken by 'smart update'

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Nov 15 2006 08:33, Pascal Bleser wrote:

>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:33:22 +0100
>From: Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser at skynet.be>
>Reply-To: smart at labix.org
>To: smart at labix.org
>Cc: smart at lists.labix.org

This double-listing is hilarious.


>> I'm on a slow dial-up line.  Already, when I run 'smart update',
>> it typically takes more than 30 minutes for that to complete.
>> [On SUSE 9.3, 'apt-get update' typically took less than 15 min.]
>
>That is probably related to the type of repository.
>RPM-MD uses gzipped XML, which is somewhat large than using something
>plain text or binary (I don't remember what apt is using).

gzipped binary.

How about tweaking repomd so that it uses *drumroll* ... CHM?
/me hides :)

>yast2 uses plain text, but unfortunately, the metadata files are
>currently uncompressed (for whatever reason).
>

	-`J'
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