monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[John Summerfield]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:35 -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I would *really*, *really* like to see yum just do that automagically!
>> Anyone know if that's been bz'd?
>> I searched, but am not patient enough right now for my 900+ bug "yum"
>> search, nor to fine tune it.
>>
> 
> Like I said before - we could do it - up to a point where a new rpm and
> yum needs a new glibc which pulls in THE WORLD.
> 
> then you're no better off.

That's not quite true, it won't need a new glibc _that_ often. Only when 
the glibc ABI changes, and presumably that will only happen in rawhide.


You could also contemplate a statically-linked transition package that 
has few, if any, deps.




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