<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Zdenek Kabelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zkabelac@redhat.com" target="_blank">zkabelac@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Also for years Debian supplies short update 'diffs' - so user doesn't have to download multiple MB sized files - just couple short small files - again something much nicer then running a daemon to download tens of MB on background daily...</blockquote>
</div><br>dnf/yum don't download metadata if it is not changed, the download a small repod.xml file with checksum and other stuff, metadata is only updated when the metadata in cache don't</div><div class="gmail_extra">
match the ones in the remoted repositories.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Updates are only push once a day, and have to sync out to the mirrors, so there is no reason to check for metadata every 10 min og every time dnf is run.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">both yum/dnf has settings to control how often the remote repos is checked for changes, so it can be configured by the user is they don't like tge default setting.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
delta metadata is on the wishlist for dnf, but it is hard to get it to work in good way.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Tim</div></div>