up2date inefficiency.

[Jim Higson]

On Friday 10 September 2004 02:22, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> The most recent kdelibs update highlights an annoying up2date wart.  I've
> seen this happen before.
>
> It looks like one of the updated packages has a new dependency on
> lm_sensors.  Because the new dependency is not satisfied by any of the
> pulled packages from the update directory, up2date then goes off and
> downloads the headers from every package in the base FC 2 channel.
>
> All 800+ of them, one at a time.  Looking for a package from base that
> satisfies the unresolved dependency.
>
> This whole process, of hitting download.redhat.com, or one of its mirrors,
> took quite a bit of time.  Furthermore, it looks like up2date went in
> alphabetical order, but it didn't even bother stopping after it read the
> headers for the lm_sensors RPM (which eventually satisfied the dependency).
> I watched, with some amusement, as it continued to chew through the rest of
> the core RPMs, all the way until zsh-html.
>
> There's got to be a better way of doing this.

IMO using apt or yum directly is a lot more useful than up2date.