> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of billg > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:22 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Thoughts and Questions On Yum, Up2Date. Etc. > > I used up2date immediately after FC2 installtion yesterday > with no problems or delays. Five packages were installed. > > Earlier today, I attempted to install a single package using > yum: yum install <packagename>. > > Yum was very, very slow. If I didn't know better, as a new > user might not, I would've assumed that it had crashed. Yum > also began to downoad headers for several packages other than > the paclage I had requested. I terminated yum before it completed. > > Two questions, then: > > 1) Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why > wasn't up2date slow? Just dumb luck? Do they not look at > the same repositories? > > 2) Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system? > > I'd prefer to see a single tool used for updating as well as > for installing new packages. Presumably, the latter > functionality could be added to up2date. (Perhaps an option > to "List New Available Official Packages"). The Xandros > updater provides that functionality, I believe. > I'd also recommend that up2date display, by default, a short > synopsis of the need and purpose of each proposed update. > And, of curse, a user should never, ever, need to edit a > source list to get the update tool to work. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > This has been discussed many, many, many, many, many, many times here. Please search the archives. Also, you can read this article: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
