From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 20/01/2022 13.10, Andrew wrote:   
   >> I have been having this problem sporadically for some weeks now,   
   >> mostly for an hour or two after 20:00 UTC (very approximately).   
   >>   
   >> When I ask zypper to apply Patches and/or Updates, retrieving one   
   >> repository's metadata takes over 30 minutes.  I think the repository   
   >> in question is "SUSE Linux Enterprise 15" (I'm running Leap 15.3) and   
   >> as far as I can see, it is always the same one.   
   >> If I run the KDE updater, I can't see which repository is the problem   
   >> but there is no reason to suppose it is not the usual candidate.   
   >   
   > Today I had a problem when trying to update using YaST, it was very   
   > slow. So I went and had a look at the end of the log file,   
   > /var/log/YaST2/y2log, which told me exactly what mirror it was actually   
   > using to download the current file. One in China, and I am in Spain.   
   >   
   > I asked, and apparently that file was very new and that was the only   
   > mirror that had the file that minute.   
   >   
      
   Your problem was downloading a package, mine was unloading the metadata   
   to see what was available.   
   You are implying that the mirror in China is updated first - late in the   
   evening (CET) - so zypper grabs the metadata from there?   
      
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