yum question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:00 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:32:57 -0500
> Peter Horst <phorst at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> > FC-5.  A general question about yum - after yum loads its plugins,
> > and reports that it is "Setting up repositories," it seems always to
> > take forever to go through its little motions.  I'm probably just
> > spoiled, but I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it somehow.  In my
> > imagination at least all yum has to do is a few table lookups, and it
> > seems to take way too long (not hours, of course, but just ... a long
> > time).  Am I alone in this?
> > 
> > Thanks much.
yum does much more than that. What is available must be checked against
what is installed, etc. It seems pretty fast for me unless you do a yum
update with 246 updates to be retrieved. That just happened to me
yesterday.
> 
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>