-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Dieter wrote: > 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 I was actually thinking about your work when I mentioned yum plugins. I think that it, your work, is a great idea. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHUDi6AO0wNI1X4QERAj/dAJ0ZIuob0RSoO5hCQ3T8Kgpxik2lLACffmLU tsGMXpaPOAXLttBb81cP+gI= =1BIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
