Specifying How Yum Downloads Updates
psmith
psmith at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 14 10:35:09 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> In Fedora 10, it looks like yum downloads updates in ascending order
>> on the size of the package. So all the small packages download first,
>> and the large packages like openoffice download last. In Fedora 11,
>> that is how it started out. But now yum appears to be downloading
>> packages alphabetically by package name. That means if package "a" is
>> very large it will still be downloaded before package "b" which is
>> quite small.
>>
>> I'm using Fedora 11 Beta just about 100% of the time now.
>>
>> How can I get yum to download in ascending order on the size of the
>> package? I love getting all the little downloads first. That is most
>> of the updates, leaving only a few large packages to do at the end.
>>
>
> the download by pkg size behavior was changed precisely b/c of how
> many raving complaints we got about it.
>
> Seems like we can't win.
>
>
> And the first person to say "well then make it an option" gets told to
> stop talking until they're maintaining the code.
>
> kthxbye
> -sv
>
my god what does it matter the order, it's going to take the same amount
of time to download and install the updates anyway lol
phil
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