On 11/24/05, Collins Richey <crichey at 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!!! > > -- > Collins Richey > Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write > the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not > smart enough to debug it. > -Brian Kernighan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center