On Friday 10 September 2004 02:22, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The most recent kdelibs update highlights an annoying up2date wart. I've > seen this happen before. > > It looks like one of the updated packages has a new dependency on > lm_sensors. Because the new dependency is not satisfied by any of the > pulled packages from the update directory, up2date then goes off and > downloads the headers from every package in the base FC 2 channel. > > All 800+ of them, one at a time. Looking for a package from base that > satisfies the unresolved dependency. > > This whole process, of hitting download.redhat.com, or one of its mirrors, > took quite a bit of time. Furthermore, it looks like up2date went in > alphabetical order, but it didn't even bother stopping after it read the > headers for the lm_sensors RPM (which eventually satisfied the dependency). > I watched, with some amusement, as it continued to chew through the rest of > the core RPMs, all the way until zsh-html. > > There's got to be a better way of doing this. IMO using apt or yum directly is a lot more useful than up2date.
