Fedora Users — Re: Another Fedora-supporting web site

Christoph Wickert wrote:

# time yum -C search office
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
...
Downloading needed headers (so it /looks/ to me, as if it still wants to
                           access the net. I'm always online, so I
                           haven't really tested it yet.)
...
real    0m11.465s
user    0m5.780s
sys     0m0.900s

$ rpm -qa *printer*
redhat-config-printer-0.6.79-1
redhat-config-printer-gui-0.6.79-1

0.6.79-1 < 0.6.9.79-1.1


online

$ time yum -C search printer Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Looking in available packages for a providing package Available package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from updates-testing matches with redhat-config-printer Available package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from updates-testing matches with redhat-config-printer-gui 2 results returned Looking in installed packages for a providing package Installed package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with redhat-config-printer Installed package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with redhat-config-printer-gui 2 results returned

real    0m1.700s
user    0m1.180s
sys     0m0.320s

Now I unplugged my machine from the net:

# time yum -C search office
...
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in available packages for a providing package
No packages found
...

So with the -C option you can only search installed packages! Did you
try that out before sending this mail? :-)

# time apt-cache search office
...
real    0m5.398s
user    0m3.010s
sys     0m0.880s

Apt-cache is twice as fast, the output is more clean and the description
is included, too.

offline

real    0m1.769s
user    0m1.270s
sys     0m0.230s

So my vote still goes to apt.


i prefer  wget , rpm, srpm, tar;./configure;make;make install  ;-)


but my vote would go to yum
simple reasons,
- it is in fedora
- i can copy&paste the url in the yum.conf [serverid] name= baseurl=
or in the rhn/sources
### an yum style repo
### format:
### type  channel-label     url

vs.

### an apt style repo
### format is:
### type  channel-label      service:server         path        repo name

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shrek-m