DNF vs. YUM

[Mark Haney]

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On 03/13/14 09:52, Tethys wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> The metadata are quite large and downloading them every single
>> time is time consuming.
> 
> I can't think of an occasion on which I'd want to say "update this 
> package, but not to the latest version". For installing new
> software, maybe. But updating an already installed package? I'd say
> the default should be to check metadata in that instance.
> 
> Tet
> 

Comparing apt and yum is silly.  But I see the point.  I've never been
personally all that impressed with how Debian updates packages.  Fast,
maybe.  Consistent?  I have always had a real problem with .deb
packages and updating configuration files.  Invariably I have config
files that don't get updated and don't work with the new versions.
Then I have to spend precious time updating the files by hand.
Personally, yum does a much better job of that.

Making RPMs and yum more efficient is great, don't get me wrong.  But
I don't care about speed.  I typically manually run updates from the
CLI every day.  I prefer seeing the progress that way than from a GUI.
 But, I guess that comes from years of being a command line jockey.

For example, I just did a full restore of Win7 on my Samsung netbook.
 I had 82 updates to install this morning (I installed almost 200
yesterday).  It took TWO HOURS to go through the installation process
(~150MB of updates) and I still had 16 updates fail to install.  The
error code in the dialog was useless.  That is precisely why I like
updating from the CLI.

I'm sure I'm in the minority of the general population, but there it is.

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Mark Haney
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