On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:22 am, billg wrote: > 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. > Yum takes its sweet time downloading all new headers. I would rather have a backend cron running every night or so that gets the headers, and have yum the app default to not downloading headers, with an option to download the headers if needed. > 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? > The first time you use Yum, it has to get a lot of data. -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
