monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Riku Seppälä wrote:
> > >
> > Just curious how much memory you have? I only have 1GB and I was thinking
> > could that be the problem.
> > http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html
> 
>   it is, in fact, 1G.  so that could be an issue?  uh oh ...

I doubt it.  I have 512M in my test machine and I went through a
recent transaction of around 1400 packages without any troubles.

An old laptop which used to have 256M of memory was just awfully
slow with yum updates (it does not run rawhide but Fedora).  Now I
found a fitting module, which doubled that memory, and updates got
much faster.

I would start with

   yum update rpm\* yum\*

before going with the rest.

    Michal