On 9/5/05, Tim Edwards tim@registriesltd.com.au wrote:
John Newbigin wrote:
I also think yum is too slow.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. After using urpmi at home on Mandrake with more than 11000 packages in the configured repos I can say that yum is definately far slower with only ~4000 packages in configured repos. The whole "Setting up Repos" and "Reading repository metadata in from local files" is a real drag.
That is true, but in yum2.4 (soon to be available for CentOS4, or you can build/install it yourself) this is greatly improved. Also, yum 2.4 includes the "shell" where yum reads in the information, gets itself ready, and then you can ask it to do a whole bunch of stuff without having to ask for it all in advance on the command line. It's pretty neat.
Regards, Greg