Re: Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

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John Summerfied wrote:
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>>> you wouldn't have to keep redistributing the mirror list,
>>
>>
>> It's 2K, not that big of a deal.
>>
>
> The current implementation is.
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> I suspect that most of the improvement in the second run occured because
> the disk data was mostly cached.

What does this have to do with fetching the mirror list?

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> _I_ have a robustness problem with yum.
> I like to use links (not elinks) for some stuff because it does graphics
> on framebuffers (and under X), but elinks conflicts with links and
> something requires elinks.
>
> Consequently having both causes some conflicts, and yum can't handle it
> and won't do any updates.
>
> Using, apt-get I could configure to leave certain packages (eg links and
> elinks) alone and it will get on with updating other stuff.

The same can be done with Yum by using "Exclude".

-- 
William Hooper


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