[Yum-devel] [PATCH 2/4] _commonRetrieveDataMD(): split the code
Zdenek Pavlas
zpavlas at redhat.com
Fri Apr 13 07:43:00 UTC 2012
> The reason I split this is because if you are downloading N objects
> and 1 of them has no size information, then you can't give a total size
These come from repomd.xml, and size is/was/shouldbe always set.
> for all N objects (and thus. no "when will it finish progress" etc.)
Multi downloader handles unknown sizes fine- it's assumed to be zero
during downloading. When finished, the total size is adjusted.
> This will only look much worse if we async objects from multiple
> repos. and N gets much bigger. Can we not do two passes?
Yes, we could.. but IMO it's a cosmetic issue that (if it pops out)
should be fixed in createrepo instead.
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