F9beta update takes forever

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 08:16 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> >> This particular bug was fixed by James Antill in yum upstream. It hasn't
> >> made it to rawhide, yet.
> > 
> > Okay, I'll proceed as if this problem doesn't exist. By Sun (when I'm 
> > back) my kernel bug might be fixed and all will be well again.
> 
> The update that worked took 68 minutes. Compared with a new install it's 
> pretty slow, and might not be too flash on a Pentium III (this is an 
> Intel vPro system, new SATA disks.

Where was the 68 minutes being used?


> The update that worked was helped by a preceding one that downloaded 
> everything and then muttered something about dependency problems 
> regarding some xine package and died.

More specifics would be helpful.

-sv