Issues with yum

[Frank Murphy]

On 27/02/12 13:52, elison.niven at gmail.com wrote:
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> Alternative 2 :
> Make the following changes to yum to make yum better:
> 1) yum should maintain status of installed packages locally. And it
> should not need to fetch repository information when user tries
> yum info<installed-package>
> Reason to have this feature : It seems logical to have information
> about an installed package locally.

try:
yumdb --help

>
> 2) yum is currently downloading repository information separately for each user.
> It can use the same downloaded repository information for all users.
> For example : root did yum install<some-package>  followed by
> Non root user did : yum info<same-package>.
> yum will currently fetch repo information again for the non root user.
> Reason to have this feature : Save time, bandwidth.

As above.

>
> 3) Show progress in "Setting up update process" or "Setting up install process".
> At present, users cannot know that is it working or sleeping.
> Reason to have this feature : Better user experience

yum --verbose

>
> 4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on
> pressing CTRL-C.
> Reason to have this feature : Better user experience

never used ctrl-c, normally use "killall yum"
if required.

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Regards,
Frank
"Jack of all, fubars"