On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:41 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. And even with the large number of updates the first time after an install the time involved is mostly in the package download, not in the lookup. There can be some delays of course as it makes connections and queries to the mirror sites to get the lists of available packages. > > > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
