On 11/24/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
CentOS is a really great product, and the package supporters do a bang up job, but the one deficiency I've found is the fact that one can never rely on being able to get updates at any particular time. Whether it's CentOS proper or the Dag additions, something is broke most every time I want to apply updates.
One other thing I haven't seen mentioned in this thread that's worth pointing out is a yum plugin called fastestmirror. You can find it and how to enable it on the yum wiki. It does a good job of getting the packages you need quickly if the only problem is download speed, at the cost of a slight (very slight in my case, less than a second) delay at the beginning. Several of the yum plugins are becoming quite sexy for daily use.
I know this is whin[ge]ing, and I certainly don't have a solution to offer.
If anyone can offer bucks and/or equipment to improved the software distribution process, your karma would get an enormous boost!!!
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