Lack of update information

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 07:12:55 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Woehlke
<mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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 :-).

Its not about the filesize but about the scripts that run on upgrade.




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