[Mageia-dev] Copying dependencies to Updates (Testing), or?changing mgaapplet to use urpmi --auto-update instead of urpmi?--update.

Fri Aug 26 01:06:47 CEST 2011

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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+> Op donderdag 25 augustus 2011 11:47:45 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> > > The problem with using "urpmi --auto-select" is that it increases i/o
+> > > and cpu usage for every execution of the check for updates by mgaapplet.
+> > 
+> > No, it doesn't need to use all repositories to check for updates. It can
+> > use "urpmq --updates --auto-select" to see what updates are available,
+> > and only use all repositories to install them.
+> > 
+> > > On my 6 year old system 5 seconds for "urpmi.update --update" versus
+> > > 24 seconds for "urpmi --auto-select", when the system is up-to-date.
+> > 
+> > It's not doing the same thing, so this comparison doesn't mean anything.
+> 
+> tbf, i personally think the best solution is actually to make it so that
+> urpmi --update --auto-select works the same way as urpmq --update --auto-
+> select, so that this can be also fixes for commandline usage when not using the 
+> mgaapplet.
+
+They work the same way.
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