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Christoph Wickert wrote:

># time yum -C search office
>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>...
>Downloading needed headers (so it /looks/ to me, as if it still wants to
>                            access the net. I'm always online, so I
>                            haven't really tested it yet.)
>...
>real    0m11.465s
>user    0m5.780s
>sys     0m0.900s
>


$ rpm -qa *printer*
redhat-config-printer-0.6.79-1
redhat-config-printer-gui-0.6.79-1

0.6.79-1 < 0.6.9.79-1.1


online

$ time yum -C search printer
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in available packages for a providing package
Available package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from 
updates-testing matches with
 redhat-config-printer
Available package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from 
updates-testing matches with
 redhat-config-printer-gui
2 results returned
Looking in installed packages for a providing package
Installed package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with
 redhat-config-printer
Installed package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with
 redhat-config-printer-gui
2 results returned
 
real    0m1.700s
user    0m1.180s
sys     0m0.320s


>Now I unplugged my machine from the net:
>
># time yum -C search office
>...
>Finding updated packages
>Downloading needed headers
>Looking in available packages for a providing package
>No packages found
>...
>
>So with the -C option you can only search installed packages! Did you
>try that out before sending this mail? :-)
>
># time apt-cache search office
>...
>real    0m5.398s
>user    0m3.010s
>sys     0m0.880s
>
>Apt-cache is twice as fast, the output is more clean and the description
>is included, too.
>


offline

$ time yum -C search printer
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in available packages for a providing package
Available package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from 
updates-testing matches with
 redhat-config-printer
Available package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79.1-1 from 
updates-testing matches with
 redhat-config-printer-gui
2 results returned
Looking in installed packages for a providing package
Installed package: redhat-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with
 redhat-config-printer
Installed package: redhat-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.79-1 matches with
 redhat-config-printer-gui
2 results returned
 
real    0m1.769s
user    0m1.270s
sys     0m0.230s



>So my vote still goes to apt.
>  
>

i prefer  wget , rpm, srpm, tar;./configure;make;make install  ;-)


but my vote would go to yum
simple reasons,
 - it is in fedora
 - i can copy&paste the url in the yum.conf [serverid] name= baseurl=
or in the rhn/sources
### an yum style repo
### format:
### type  channel-label     url

vs.

### an apt style repo
### format is:
### type  channel-label      service:server         path        repo name

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shrek-m