Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue May 10 13:53:37 UTC 2005
William Hooper wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>>you wouldn't have to keep redistributing the mirror list,
>>>
>>>
>>>It's 2K, not that big of a deal.
>>>
>>
>>The current implementation is.
>
> [snip]
>
>>I suspect that most of the improvement in the second run occured because
>>the disk data was mostly cached.
>
>
> What does this have to do with fetching the mirror list?
It was doing _something_ during all that time. What it was it didn't
show, whether it was the mirror list or the metadata from yet another
mirror or both, I could not see.
Whatever, it's slow.
>
> The same can be done with Yum by using "Exclude".
>
Thanks.
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John
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