On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, at 6:08 PM, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > I don't really want to throw money out the window just because DNF > eats up all the memory it can :(
Everyone needs to internalize: This has nothing to do with DNF, really. It's about the *size of the repository metadata*. Every single time someone adds a new package into the single "Fedora" rpm-md repo, that makes clients going OOM a bit more likely. Every single time there's a new package, it makes it more likely that a client will hit a timeout downloading the repodata and fail to get that critical kernel security update. Even doing the obvious thing and splitting off e.g. a `fedora-devel` rpm-md repo (as is done kind of done in RHEL with CRB) that had all the -devel and Go/Rust etc. packages would likely create a huge amount of savings. Also as I said in an earlier thread, relating to SBCs but also small cloud instances - we also have image-based editions; these are Fedora systems too. rpm-ostree will not download the rpm-md by default, so is immune to this. And particularly after https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainerStable - the UX for managing these is the same as podman/docker style application containers. You don't pay the cost of downloading the rpm-md on each client. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
