On 02/12/2020 10:57, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

Just updated notebook to FC32 - took almost 14 hours.
25 minutes to download the 5.4G of the 5008 packages.
After reboot to upgrade
took little over 8 hours for upgrade part
then 4.5 hours for the clean part
and about another .5 hours for the verify and man-db stuff.
Then the reboot and it had to do some things.

So, now have the latest stuff. 
Still not clear why an upgrade like this takes so long...

I don't know. My updates have gone much quicker in comparison.

An old notebook with a single SSD took about 45 minutes to upgrade 2722 packages and an additional
maybe 20 minutes or so to download them.

Another system with SSD took 31 minutes to upgrade 3096 packages with also about 20+ minutes to
download.

In both cases I didn't record the download times and they may have been done when other processes
were taking up download bandwidth.

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