On 06/12/2009 08:14 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Freitag, den 12.06.2009, 05:34 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> I don't see what it buys our users if they get one big update
over 2 small
> ones.
In most cases the biggest part (consuming time and cpu cycles) of the
updates is not installing them but everything else like checking for new
packages, downloading the metadata,
This portion of the list is saved.
calculating dependencies,
downloading the packages and running the transaction test. Especially
for small updates this takes much more time than the actual "rpm -U"
part.
But this portion of your list is dependent on the size of the
transaction so it isn't going to halve the time to go from two small
updates to a single large update here.
-Toshio