On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:19:27 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > > Keith G. Robertson-Turner said: > >> However, I do agree in general that both yum and up2date seem to have >> problems downloading - that apt doesn't seem to suffer from so much (very >> weird considering they all use the same Repos now - maybe it's a timeout >> setting). > > Actually the main site (that up2date and yum are configured for by > default) doesn't have the apt metadata, so no they don't use the same > Repos. In essence using apt is the long way around to using a mirror > site. Most (notice I didn't say all) problems with up2date/yum that are > solved by using apt could just as easily be solved by using configuring a > mirror for up2date/yum. Only going by my own experience here, but I've seen yum get "stuck" on a download, from the same Repo that apt successfully (and quickly) downloads from, seconds later. I haven't looked at the source, but as I speculated before, I'm guessing the timeout value is set too high, whereas (once again - a speculation) apt maybe fails and retries quicker. You're right, it isn't exactly the same directory, but on my setup it is the same server. - K.
