Specifying How Yum Downloads Updates

[psmith]

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> In Fedora 10, it looks like yum downloads updates in ascending order 
>> on the size of the package. So all the small packages download first, 
>> and the large packages like openoffice download last. In Fedora 11, 
>> that is how it started out. But now yum appears to be downloading 
>> packages alphabetically by package name. That means if package "a" is 
>> very large it will still be downloaded before package "b" which is 
>> quite small.
>>
>> I'm using Fedora 11 Beta just about 100% of the time now.
>>
>> How can I get yum to download in ascending order on the size of the 
>> package? I love getting all the little downloads first. That is most 
>> of the updates, leaving only a few large packages to do at the end.
>>
>
> the download by pkg size behavior was changed precisely b/c of how 
> many raving complaints we got about it.
>
> Seems like we can't win.
>
>
> And the first person to say "well then make it an option" gets told to 
> stop talking until they're maintaining the code.
>
> kthxbye
> -sv
>
my god what does it matter the order, it's going to take the same amount 
of time to download and install the updates anyway lol

phil