Bug 295498

Summary:	zypper refresh downloads way too much
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ma
Version:	Alpha 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Stephan Kulow 2007-07-29 18:08:35 UTC

I did a zypper -v update -t package and it seems it triggered a refresh, but it downloaded tons of meta data, which is not compressed. Among it the packages file for several languages:

Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/office-64bit-10.3-82.ppc.pat
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.DU
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.cs
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.de
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.en
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.es
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.fr
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.hu
* Downloading [100%]
Downloading: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/packages.sk

This seems highly unnecessary. Especially as in the end it can't update as factory is broken at the moment :)

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2007-08-04 06:45:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 293740 ***