On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 08:50 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On a related note, why on earth is the main Fedora repo set to expire > every two weeks? (and its -source and -debuginfo every week??) It's not > supposed to change *ever* for a released distro version now is it?
You know, this may be me being dumb, but this question prompted me to wonder...can't we do something better than metadata expiry and complete re-download for repos that use the mirrormanager metalinks? The metalinks already provide checksums and timestamps for the metadata. So instead of dumbly going out and re-downloading the entire metadata at hardcoded intervals, couldn't we rather just check if the 'latest' metadata (according to the metalink) has changed since the last time we ran, or something along those lines, and only actually download the metadata if so? Wouldn't that save us a lot of wasted metadata downloads? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
