the software installer downloads rpms quickly but takes a slightly long time installing them and a very long time refreshing the packages after the installation . In comparison with synaptic it is noticeably slow . It is not a specific bug in particular , but I hope in the future release the developers may improve its performance .
This is something very dependent on 'horsepower'. Accepting that rpmdrake is slower than say synaptic on the same box, having recently got a new more powerful machine, package installation and subsequent refresh happens very quickly. It is unlikely that anything can be done with the software as it is, or that this will ever be signifcantly improved. But I pass your comment on.
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatoolsSource RPM: (none) => rpmdrakeSeverity: normal => enhancement
I think you should allow an option to disable auto refresh and off course add a button to reload packages . synaptic does not auto refresh and has a reload button. Zypper auto refreshes on startup but has button to disable auto refresh. rpmdrake auto refresh packages on startup and after each installation and this is what I think slows it down in comparison with the others.
Summary: drakrpm may need a performance boost => drakrpm should make package auto refresh optional
As Lewis already wrote, it depends mainly on your hardware specs. Disabling "refresh" is a really bad idea. This can be seen on many threads in the openSUSE forums where absolute clueless users get in troubles because they disabled "refresh". Having outdated repos causes the most problems... Can you provide qualified measuring values between the different tools on different distros and implementations? Can you also provide qualified comparisons between the different technical backgrounds and implementations of zypper, yast2-softweare, urpmi, drakrpm, apt, synaptic, ....?
Summary: drakrpm should make package auto refresh optional => drakrpm may need a performance boost
At least it should not auto refresh after each installation , only on startup.
Plus I am asking for an optional behaviour not a default one .
Please don't confuse different topics and mechanisms. The "refresh" which you can disable in openSUSE for zypper is ONLY for the repos. Repos only get refreshed once prior start of installation of a package and never after it. This is the same on Mageia. Users who only use graphical tools like drakrpm, synaptic and yast2-software don't see what happens and can't understand what is going on behind the scenes. You should try the basic tools on terminal to learn what is going on. If you do a package installation via terminal with zypper, apt or urpmi you will understand and see the the repos only get refreshed before installation. Everything which happens after installation of a package is a rebuild/actualisation of the (installed) package database or run of post-installation scripts or rebuild of the initrd. This can't be ommitted or your system will break. If you only use graphical tools like synaptic, drakrpm, yast2-software you don't see the run of post-installation scripts, rebuil of initrd and so on.... So maybe the use of basic terminal tools may help you to understand what is going on when you think that graphical tools are "slow".
Thanks for clarifying things to me. I take back my request I suspect the culprit is my weak processor : CPU: Dual Core Celeron T3000 (-MCP-) speed: 1794 MHz Kernel: 5.10.0-22-686-pae i686 Mem: 1945.5 MiB Although I have synaptic on another partition and it feels a little bit faster..Thanks anyway.
I am marking the issue as resolved.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED