On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:00 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:32:57 -0500 > Peter Horst <phorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > FC-5. A general question about yum - after yum loads its plugins, > > and reports that it is "Setting up repositories," it seems always to > > take forever to go through its little motions. I'm probably just > > spoiled, but I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it somehow. In my > > imagination at least all yum has to do is a few table lookups, and it > > seems to take way too long (not hours, of course, but just ... a long > > time). Am I alone in this? > > > > Thanks much. yum does much more than that. What is available must be checked against what is installed, etc. It seems pretty fast for me unless you do a yum update with 246 updates to be retrieved. That just happened to me yesterday. > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
