On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Mike Perry wrote: > Do any apt repositories exist for core 3 test 3 yet? Freshrpms has apt repository for the development (aka rawhide) tree of Fedora which allows you to keep up with updates: "rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux development/i386 core" in apt's sources.list ought to do it. > > Also, could somebody please tell me why it is that yum was selected > for the default package upgrade mechanism? I would have expected there > to have been many flame wars on this, but searching google only > reveals a few offhand remarks. Yes, there have been rather endless "discussions" about the topic. Lets not go there again. > > It seems to me if any kind of speed is desired, yum is broken by > design. Keeping each package header in a separate file prevents TCP > slow start from ever reaching the bandwidth of your link since a new > connection must be established for each file. Hence a yum update can > take ages, even on extremely fast internet connections. > > Is it possible for yum to download all headers in a single archive > file to speed things up? Yum in FC3test3 is a LOT faster than it was on FC2. Still can't beat apt but the new XML metadata is probably a lot slower to process than what apt natively uses, it's going to be interesting to see how apt compares once the new metadata support gets added into it. - -Panu -
