On 28 February 2010 18:39, James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I can't think of any reason why you'd need, or want, to
have
updates-testing checks block any other GUI operation.
To show the list of newest updates to the user...
> If we could speed up the dep checking and downloading, I agree
it
> would be better for usability, and the exposure of updates-testing
> generally.
Dep. checking is pretty fast, upT¹ is roughly 10 seconds for 300
packages here and lsuT is like 2.5 seconds. I guess maybe that's worth
caring about if you block everything else behind it, but...
Sure, and 2.5 seconds _extra_ is a long time.
As to the downloads, if you know of a way to speed up a users
internet
connection ... feel free to spread your wisdom.
Here's three:
* Download from multiple mirrors simultaneously
* Do the transaction in parallel so that you're downloading the next
depsolved set of updates as you're installing the first
* Have better control of the cache format so you don't need to keep
three files in sync just to update the primary and then depsolve.
Richard.