On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 08:49 +0000, Mike C wrote: > Indeed so. Also it is surely the case the for the majority of updates on a day > to day basis the largest fraction of the time needed to complete the updates is > likely to the downloading the update rpms. > > Therefore making sure the downloads come from a fast mirror is the most important > factor in getting the overall elapsed time to be as short as possible. > > Once the rpms are all in the cache area then the update install is usually quite > quick. > And, of course, there's yum-presto which downloads the *difference* between the new updates and what's on your system, giving you a saving of, on average, roughly 80%. Until the official Fedora repositories are presto-enabled, you have to make some changes to your .repo files. See http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto for more information. Jonathan Full disclosure: I am the yum-presto maintainer
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