Lack of update information

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Try doing updates on a netbook, 
> I own one - Typical "yum update" times are in the order of "very few" 
> minutes at average.

Looking only at install times...

Asus EEE 900A (SSD): 3m40s
HP xw4400 Workstation (SATA platter): 1m25s

...and the latter did kernel-devel as well as kernel, kernel-headers and 
kernel-firmware, plus it also had to remove a kmod-nvidia. (Times are 
approximate.)

...so the SSD is about 3x slower or more (especially as I notice 
kernel-devel took the desktop the longest).

>>  Yum isn't really the problem here, it's the
>> rpms themselves, constantly doing ldconfigs, cache updates, tonnes of
>> hardlinking, etc... 
> 
>  From what I experience, SELinux policy updates are by far means the 
> most resource intense/most time consuming part of updating.

Really? For me, it's always OOo updates... 100 MB in a single package? 
(What's worse is that OOo can't be updated while running... it doesn't 
crash, but it becomes unable to save; bad news if you forgot to save 
first. That and Firefox are the only things I'm aware of with that 
problem, but at least with FF it only breaks typing addresses into the 
address bar.)

Whereas selinux is a 2.0 MB package :-).

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