quicker updates - use presto

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 06:46:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:06 +0530, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
> I tried it once but had mixed results. So gave it up. Now enabling it
> again in yumex on F8. 
> Yes its a huge gain on limited bandwidth.

It works like a bloomin' charm with yum, especially via modem connect. I
think it's great and a huge THANK YOU! to all involved creating it! I
truly hope that presto can come to be used to update the repo data as
well, which hugely slows down retrieving just a file. I hope you please
undertake that. You will have my undying gratitude all over again! Ric
 
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