Lazy file list loading? Yes, that's on DNF's TODO list already, but (to
be honest) not on top - there's always something more important. It's
not getting into DNF4, but it may get into DNF5 later on.
Dne 02. 11. 20 v 20:13 clime napsal(a):
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 18:55, Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Dne 01. 11. 20 v 11:58 clime napsal(a):
>> Hello!
>>
>> First of all, I don't really know what I am talking about here but I
>> noticed the `dnf update` operation downloads among other things
>> `filelists.xml` (optionally compressed by zchunk, thanks Jonathan
>> Dieter!!!) and I remember there was a thread on devel mailing quite
>> some time ago by Zbyszek from which I understood this data is only
>> needed when filesystem paths are used as package requirements or when
>> a fs path is specified as direct argument to `dnf install`.
>
>
> This was the case for Yum, but have never the case for DNF since its
> beginning. I think there were some reasons, such as that the solver in
> case it finds it needs them would need to stop, download the data and
> start from beginning. Other reason could be that nobody optimized it yet.
>
> Anyway, I guess you'll find more info in Bugzilla.
Hello vit, thank you very much, I will try to look it up. M.
>
>
> V.
>
>
>> Could we
>> then, please, trigger download of this file only if and when needed
>> and not sooner? It seems to take more than half of the total download
>> size e.g. for fedora-32-updates repo so it could improve repodata
>> download times quite significantly. Again, I don't really know what I
>> am talking about here but this came to my mind recently so I wanted to
>> write it down just in case it would be possible :).
>>
>> Thank you very much
>> clime
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