On 16 December 2014 at 20:09, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > [root@localhost cache]# du -sh * > 94M dnf > 446M PackageKit > 4.0K yum
I think you're overstating the amount of metadata for PK for two reasons: 1. This is for my current system, with a few repos installed: 67M /var/cache/PackageKit/hawkey 64M /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata The first are the SAT databases which are generated automatically on first run and not downloaded. 446M is a heck of a lot, so I'd be interested to know if that's packages as well included there. 2. For F21, on first run we copy the contents of /usr/share/PackageKit/metadata to /var/cache/metadata so the software installer can launch instantly rather than waiting for ~100Mb of metadata to download (the logic being, old metadata is better than no metadata). We only do a cache refresh on explicit request (the refresh button on the updates screen) or when the user is idle; and we do the latter with idle bandwith and CPU. I do agree it's a problem, and the librepo/PackageKit/hawkey team had a meeting just today to discuss ways of sharing metadata. Tracker bug here: https://github.com/Tojaj/librepo/issues/36 Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
