Thoughts and Questions On Yum, Up2Date. Etc.
-=Brian Truter=-
brian at famvid.com
Thu May 20 18:59:46 UTC 2004
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> I used up2date immediately after FC2 installtion yesterday
> with no problems or delays. Five packages were installed.
>
> Earlier today, I attempted to install a single package using
> yum: yum install <packagename>.
>
> Yum was very, very slow. If I didn't know better, as a new
> user might not, I would've assumed that it had crashed. Yum
> also began to downoad headers for several packages other than
> the paclage I had requested. I terminated yum before it completed.
>
> Two questions, then:
>
> 1) Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why
> wasn't up2date slow? Just dumb luck? Do they not look at
> the same repositories?
>
> 2) Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system?
>
> I'd prefer to see a single tool used for updating as well as
> for installing new packages. Presumably, the latter
> functionality could be added to up2date. (Perhaps an option
> to "List New Available Official Packages"). The Xandros
> updater provides that functionality, I believe.
> I'd also recommend that up2date display, by default, a short
> synopsis of the need and purpose of each proposed update.
> And, of curse, a user should never, ever, need to edit a
> source list to get the update tool to work.
>
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This has been discussed many, many, many, many, many, many times here.
Please search the archives.
Also, you can read this article:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
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