Bug 288640

Summary:	do not download repo data during installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	macias - <bluedzins>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	crrodriguez
Version:	Alpha 6
Target Milestone:	unspecified
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	290040

Description macias - 2007-06-29 19:43:26 UTC

After installation user is asked about adding additional repositories. Good move.

Bad design although is actually downloading all the data from repos -- please do not do this. Add repos, not data from repos. 
Reasons:
a) user cannot download anything from them at the installation level
b) download them (repo data) when user will run soft.management from installed system

ad.b) when (b) will occur it could happen that data from installation are outdated and there is need for downloading them again, what the first downloading was for?

Make the installation process as fast as possible, save all additional downloading/computing/etc, for after-installation process (from installed system).

Comment 1 Cristian Rodríguez 2007-06-30 07:04:44 UTC

Duncan: does zypp provide some kind of "register only" for installation sources so the process of downloading the metadata can be done on demand, later ?? ( I see a value on this, will be a nice thing to have, but I know there are more important issues to fix.. 

Maciej: This cannot be fixed (if at all) in 10.2, moving to 10.3.

Comment 2 Duncan Mac-Vicar 2007-07-26 08:55:45 UTC

This is implemented. But then it means pkg-bindings has to _use_ it.

Comment 3 Ladislav Slezák 2007-07-27 07:37:13 UTC

Pkg bindings already support this, the Yast script need to be updated...

Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2007-07-31 09:39:15 UTC

Fixed in SVN rev.39829 (will be included in yast2-installation-2.15.38)

Comment 5 Ladislav Slezák 2007-08-01 09:00:42 UTC

Submitted to autobuild