Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I maintain several machines remotely: several debian. one FC3.
Debian, of course, uses apt-get, and apt get supports download-only.
So I run a nightly cronjob to download needed updates.
Yum only supports download-and-install. I have the clear impression
that yum is slower than apt-get even without having to wait for
downloads to occur, but as it stands and without making allowances,
yum is way slower.
It has been pointed already yumdownloader exists within yum-utils in the
Fedora Extras repository and yum in Fedora Core 4 has significant
performance improvements.
regards
Rahul
Rahul & Chris
I've been through downloading this from here, that from there and
generally it leads to pain. At one point I had a working but borked (as
in essentially unmaintainable) Debian system through adding
complementary repositories any of which could provide updates for any
package on my system.
That aside, I was discussing FC3, not FC3 plus this and plus that, nor
FC4. Having seen and used FC3 I'm not sure I'm ready for 4:-)
Installing and using yumdownloader or apt-get may paper over some
cracks, but the cracks are still there. When discussing Linux
distributions, one can't really count anything that's not part of the
actual distribution. I know some distros are part CD (or DVD) and part
download: Debian and Ubuntu are both like this, but AFAIK FC3 is what's
on the DVD image I downloaded.
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John
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