January 9, 2018 9:59 PM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> To save all the Fedora users in the world from having to update metadata
> for minor changes. Since there's a hourly dnf makecache every user in
> the world pulls down new metadata ever time we update a repo.
So to save people the download, you make a change that totally defeats the
point of dnf checking for updates every hour to begin with?
> If we update a repo for some minor enhancements it means everyone in the
> world has to pay for that. If we just push all those out every tuesday and
> don't update those unless there's something urgent we save everyone a
> lot of bandwith and us computing time/resources.
This does not work in practice because there are always updates that are not
batched.
> There are definitely more days when there are no updates for a
> particular repo now. Of course there would be even more if you (or those
> who do likewise) wouldn't skip batched, but probibly we need to explain
> why more clearly.
Are there really? The last couple days, there were basically daily pushes
with around 2 updates each.
So, if there ARE updates to be pushed (marked urgent?) and we update metadata
ANYWAY, this is a good point to flush everything from batched in this push.