Bug 699441

Summary: Kpackagekit takes forever to refresh package cache/generate package list
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: shishir verma <shiverma>
Component: libzyppAssignee: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P2 - High CC: dmacvicar
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.4   
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Description shishir verma 2011-06-11 12:11:19 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

After an upgrade, if I click on the "Check for new updates" button in the kpackagekit window, the stage where it goes to refresh package cache/generate package list takes inordinately long.

Another problem is that when the updater turns green in the system tray and tells that there are updates, clicking on it opens up kpackagekit window which again performs a search for updates instead of just listing the updates.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update the system after a notification in system tray.
2.Leave the kpackagekit window open.
3.Click on "Check for new Updates"
Actual Results:  
It goes on to refreshing sources which is quite fast. After completing the refresh on sources, package refresh starts which takes a long time to complete.

Expected Results:  
It should not take very long to get package list on a freshly updated system.
Comment 1 Duncan Mac-Vicar 2011-07-05 12:51:27 UTC 
Can you send me the output of

$ rpm -q --changelog PackageKit | head -n 25
Comment 2 shishir verma 2011-07-06 01:20:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you send me the output of
> 
> $ rpm -q --changelog PackageKit | head -n 25

shiverma@nirvana ~ $rpm -q --changelog PackageKit | head -n 25
* Fri May 20 2011 meissner@suse.de
- fixed build with older gtk2.

* Mon May 09 2011 dmacvicar@suse.de
- Add patches:
  + Add PackageKit backend function name in logging
    (pk_backend_log):
    0001-zypp-log-to-ZYpp-s-log-the-start-of-a-PK-backend-fun.patch
  + Fix for lost package locks (bnc#690038):
    0002-zypp-fix-deletion-of-package-locks-bnc-690038.patch

* Fri May 06 2011 vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 0.6.14:
  + Lots of nice bugfixes in this release, along with slight
    changes to the SetProxy() and DownloadPackages() D-Bus API. If
    you're using either packagekit-glib or packagekit-qt then
    there's no change required as the libraries have symbol
    fallbacks.
  + The packageKit-qt2 library has been committed. It is eventually
    aiming to replace packagekit-qt.
  + New Features:
  - Add a 'store_in_cache' attribute to the DownloadPackages
    method
  - Automatically cancel running background transactions if a
    foreground transaction is committed
shiverma@nirvana ~ $

umm...I do have a lot of repos configured, does that contribute to slowing down.
Comment 3 shishir verma 2011-07-11 04:47:58 UTC 
Move to assigned as previous comment provides info requested
Comment 4 shishir verma 2011-07-11 04:53:24 UTC 
My bug sounds like it's a dup of bug 679650
Comment 5 Duncan Mac-Vicar 2011-07-23 01:57:33 UTC 
Yes, it is

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 679650 ***