Bug 105580 - Adding a large source repository needs long time; message would be useful
Summary: Adding a large source repository needs long time; message would be useful
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: All All
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Michael Andres
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-18 15:17 UTC by Jiri Dluhos
Modified: 2006-12-14 11:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Jiri Dluhos 2005-08-18 15:17:41 UTC 
When adding a large set of RPMs as a source repository, the process of adding
can last very long time; I presume the packages need to be somehow analyzed or
indexed.

It would be nice to have a message saying something like "this operation can
take very long time according to the size of the repository" to the "Adding
installation source" window. A progress bar, if possible, would be even nicer.

Of course, it would be the best if the adding could be faster, but that probably
won't be easy :-)
Comment 1 Jonathan Arsenault 2006-05-06 17:06:34 UTC 
indeed i seen lots of people thinking yast was frozen in those case, even more if the user got a 56k modem. Adding a Message of the kind "downloading metada, depending on connection speed this could take a while, please wait" (possible to also query the file size on protocol that support it and show a progress bar ?) would be cool.
Comment 2 Jiri Dluhos 2006-12-14 11:47:30 UTC 
As we now have a new package manager GUI which shows progress bars, I think we can consider this bug fixed.