<div dir="ltr"><div>7 days is way, way, way too long for an active repository such as any of the currently supported Fedoras. And yes, it *is* burdensome to download and keep updating all the time.<br><br></div>If running more than a few servers, I always maintain a local nightly mirror and point my clients to that by default. The metadata download is still burdensome, but the traffic is local and much faster. And I completely exclude "drpms" from the mirror, there's just no point to it if you've using a local mirror.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Reindl Harald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net" target="_blank">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am 09.04.2013 11:10, schrieb Richard Hughes:<br>
<div class="im">> Using PackageKit and yum on the command line is often painful as we<br>
> have to always download metadata unless it's less than a few hours<br>
> old. Being able to update the metadata once a week would be awesome<br>
> (with the possible exception of security updates) so that we could<br>
> schedule the 20Mb+ metadata update when the user is idle rather than<br>
> waiting for updates<br>
<br>
</div>[root@rh:~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo<br>
[fedora]<br>
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch<br>
failovermethod=priority<br>
#baseurl=<a href="http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1" target="_blank">http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/<br>
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch<br>
enabled=1</a><br>
metadata_expire=7d<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I'm wondering what the interest would be in keeping packages<br>
> referenced in metadata on the mirrors for say a month? We'd probably<br>
> need a separate fedora-security repo too that's designed to be kept<br>
> small enough so that metadata checks every day would be not costly in<br>
> terms of bandwidth and time<br>
<br>
</div>this does not work for many reasons and having more repos would<br>
make things worser with low bandwidth because you have to load<br>
more metadata at all and if i want search for updates i use<br>
"yum clean metadata && yum upgrade" which is a real pain on<br>
slow bandwith<br>
<br>
the reason is that the metadata getting larger and larger because<br>
all of the shiny ideas what additional ones would be nice while<br>
the developers are on LAN or at least very fast LAN networks<br>
<br>
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