yum - lack of features

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Summerfied wrote:

> Scott Talbot wrote:
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>>> i agree with you paul. mmm, yum is still slow :(
>>>
>> If you really want to see how fast yum is, Download the packages you 
>> want, install them with rpm -Uvh, go find the dependencies, install 
>> with rpm -Uvh *, download more dependencies..... Boy, yum is great! :-)
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>
> I maintain several machines remotely: several debian. one FC3.
>
> Debian, of course, uses apt-get, and apt get supports download-only. 
> So I run a nightly cronjob to download needed updates.
>
> Yum only supports download-and-install. I have the clear impression 
> that yum is slower than apt-get even without having to wait for 
> downloads to occur, but as it stands and without making allowances, 
> yum is way slower.

It has been pointed already yumdownloader exists within yum-utils in the 
Fedora Extras repository and yum in Fedora Core 4 has significant 
performance improvements.

regards
Rahul