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.
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. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote: > > > Am 09.04.2013 11:10, schrieb Richard Hughes: > > Using PackageKit and yum on the command line is often painful as we > > have to always download metadata unless it's less than a few hours > > old. Being able to update the metadata once a week would be awesome > > (with the possible exception of security updates) so that we could > > schedule the 20Mb+ metadata update when the user is idle rather than > > waiting for updates > > [root@rh:~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo > [fedora] > name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch > failovermethod=priority > #baseurl= > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ > > mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch > enabled=1 > metadata_expire=7d > > > I'm wondering what the interest would be in keeping packages > > referenced in metadata on the mirrors for say a month? We'd probably > > need a separate fedora-security repo too that's designed to be kept > > small enough so that metadata checks every day would be not costly in > > terms of bandwidth and time > > this does not work for many reasons and having more repos would > make things worser with low bandwidth because you have to load > more metadata at all and if i want search for updates i use > "yum clean metadata && yum upgrade" which is a real pain on > slow bandwith > > the reason is that the metadata getting larger and larger because > all of the shiny ideas what additional ones would be nice while > the developers are on LAN or at least very fast LAN networks > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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