On 31/01/11 16:27, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
This is more a general question, I understand abs is updated every 24 hours. Would more regular updates (say, every 1 hour or so) be better?
Currently, for those (like me) who compulsively update, abs is pretty much guaranteed to be behind the latest packages in any mirror (by a max of 24 hours). If it doesn't cost (resources etc.) too much for abs to be updated every 1 hour, wouldn't this mean that most mirrors are likely to be in sync with abs just about all the time?
Obviously I've got self-interest in this, since I auto-patch (using bauerbill) some packages from the repos. Its not a huge priority (I can manually access the SVN interface, but I think it'd be useful.
The ABS update is quite inefficient... it takes about 15 minutes to run. If this was improved, then I would see no reason not to run it every hour. Saying that, I seem to remember that we were going to run this a few more times a day, but I have no idea what happened to that... Allan