Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2007 04:35:22 Kevin Valko wrote: >> I'm really, really impressed with the improvements to package management >> for 10.3, and I think the vast majority of existing users will be as well. >> I'm just wondering if we can cut down potential problems in the default >> install, without relying on pointing to a page in the wiki for >> de-cluttering the package manager after time ? > > Nice to see you like the improvements! > > We are already discussing how to vacuum the zypp database, and also the rpm > database fragmentation number found by Marcus are interesting. > > We will work on it and try to release an online update for 10.3, at least for > the zypp part. For rpm we will see. > > The biggest "?" is about operation time. This cleanup also takes lot of time > and is cpu and IO intensive. The right moment to do it is after heavy > database writting, that is refresh. Cron job also was suggested as an idea. > But consideer the cron job too random about "when" to do it, and also > problematic f it start working when you are using YaST or the applet is > checking for updates (it is safe, but you will get a lock message). > Our current idea is to do it on refresh but using a time threshold. And > making > it configurable of course. > > More ideas are welcome.
You could just ask whenever the YaST package manage UI comes up. Run some metric that checks the size and/or condition of the zypper database and if it is "too big", put up a dialog box that says "The Package Database needs to be optimize. Do it now? Warning - this could take some time to complete." -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
