Bug 175562

What type of source are you adding? A local one (CD, directory, NFS) or a source from the internet (http, ftp)?

My guess is that YaST is downloading the metadata of the installation source which takes some time - especially when using a source from the internet.

(In reply to comment #1)
> What type of source are you adding? A local one (CD, directory, NFS) or a
> source from the internet (http, ftp)?
> 
> My guess is that YaST is downloading the metadata of the installation source
> which takes some time - especially when using a source from the internet.
> 

Add a ftp site, the reply from ftp is fast, I prove it again, and the system wait nearly five minutes.
I've a PIV - 3.4Ghz and 1Gb RAM.
(pd.: sorry for my bad english)

I suppose this is not really a bug. However we need some sort of progress or message to show the user something is happening.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I suppose this is not really a bug. However we need some sort of progress or
> message to show the user something is happening.
> 

No crees que sea un bug, bueno ya me diras la definición de bug.
Te explico el problema, añado una fuente de instalación, sea ftp, http, o un directorio local, o lo que sea.
El sistema parece aceptar esa fuente, pero luego al darle finalizar, el sistema se pasa cinco minutos mas o menos ejecutando procesos, ocupando el 100% de los recursos de la cpu.
Los procesos que ejecuta son estos, alternativamente: parse-metadada, zmd y update-status.
Que los ejecute durante casi cinco minutos y ocupando un 99% del procesador, no es normal, por mucho que digais.
Lo he provado con el sistema limpio, o sea, después de una instalación limpia.
En mi ordenador, ya he especificado sus caracteristicas, y en otras dos máquinas diferentes, y hace exactamente lo mismo.

PD. escrito en español, lo siento, me expreso mejor.

I have the same problem.

Whatever of installation source (ftp or http) i adding in yast, adding and show in the list is no problem, but first, when i refresh this new installation source, it takes a lot of time 5-10 min. and after then, when i close the "add install source dialog", it refreshes an takes the same long time again.
Although the installation sources are not set to "autorefresh".
And after then, when i start yast to add and remove sofware, its the same thing and it refreshes and refreshes...
I think this is a bug.

I'm having the same problem, only in my case, the darned "Finish" button doesn't finish. It just sits there, and sits there, forever. No 5 or 10 minutes here, I waited a good hour! And my sources were all ftp4.gwdg.de ones, so I know it wasn't their server being down!

Also, 'rug service-list' shows more/different sources than Yast's 'change installation source" listing.

I confirm this annoying experience on my machine. Yast hangs after confirming any change to the source list - be it a status change, and add or a delete. After clicking "finish", it simply hangs.

YaST2 eventually did complete the new source addition - I waited 45 minutes, though.  After much discussion on the mailing list, it seems this function is more in need of a Progress Bar than anything else.

To add a progress, I'd need rug to give output which would let me realize the progress status. At the momoment, there are callbacks in ZYPP which report progress while creating a source. Naresh, do you think it would be possible to let rug provide some output which YaST could read in order to display progress while storing a source to ZENworks?

If you create such option to rug, please, reassign the bug back to me...

Is this still valid?  Considering the massive improvements to this whole update/repo system in 10.3, I for one would recommend moving this to WONTFIX.

Agreed. Also 11.0 is much faster even compared to 10.3.