On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:47 +0200, 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 <Tip of the Wayward4now Hat> You all have done one helluva good thing, especially for those of us stuck with modems in more remote areas. I hope to see Presto applied to the initial repo files that can hit a meg or so, as well. It's maddening as hell to have to dnload those files, only to have them error-ing out and then the complete dnload is respawned on the next mirror and then the next until you finally hit a mirror that is sync'ed. Just to get some 500k update an hour or so later. If that process could be "presto'd" that would be truly a great great thing. Thanks again for all you do. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
