Re: [clug-talk] YUM chossing repositories is vital (was: my experience with Fedora Core 2)

[Niels Voll]

In my experience yum is really slow with the default Fedora server even 
on very fast hardware. When using a fast (using the world loosely) 
server, it is a hugely more positive experience. I've had very good 
success with kernel.org's yum mirror for RH9 and FC1. Changing servers 
needs to be done in the yum config file in /etc  A bit ugly to still 
have to do it that way, but a must to start having a pleasant experience 
with yum. (disclaimer: I've only used yum on broadband, never on 
dial-up, and I've only used it with lots of RAM and >2.4GHz CPU).

By the way, yum has excellent repositories for legacy RH distro's; I'm 
aware of RH8 and RH9, not sure, but maybe RH7 is even supported.

And there are additional yum capable repositories kicking around for FC 
(google for it); these allow easy installation and updates for packages 
beyond the "Core" of Fedora.

...Niels



Jesse Kline wrote:
Actually Yum really is slow as a mother... I used apt, up2date and Yum on the
same old machine, and what apt would do in 30 seconds, Yum would take hours to
do (seriously). I think I left it to d/l headers overnight, and then when it was
finnished all that it gave me an error and didn't end up doing anything.
Jesse
Quoting "Andrew J. Kopciuch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
 

On Saturday 22 May 2004 19:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
   

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i had to (unexpectedly) update a rather old Red Hat system (running 6.2!)
today... decided to install FC2 to see how it went, 2.6 kernel and all =)
Hardware: 500Mhz PII, 128MB RAM
     

AMD-k6 500,   Not PII.
;-)
   

only one problem. yum is amazingly slow. i used to think YAST was slow.
then i met yum. and even worse: yum is a resource HOG. it wasn't unusual
for YUM to take 80-100MB while installing a package! that's INSANE!
     

Agreed that that is rather large.  However ... yum on my machine takes no 
where near the same amount of time (on FC1) ... or resources for that matter.

I don't know what differences are between yum-2.0.7 in FC2 and yum-2.0.4 in
FC1.  Maybe somebody goofed something in yum?
My machine is :
AMD 2.4 gHz
512MB RAM
I'm not saying that the shortcomings of yum should be ignored by increasing
your CPU speed, and throwing more memory in a machine.  Let's also not bash a
program, running on hardware considered to be to "decent" ~ 5 years ago, and
whine about it's speed.
;-)
I never could complain about my 1990 plymouth acclaim not having the same 
speed as a 2004 mustang.  Even after I had the tune up done.

My suspicion is that urmpi, and yast would not run as fast on that machine 
either.  Possibly faster than yum ... I cannot say.  

I think the luxury of installing on "new servers", with nice new and fast 
resources has spoiled our brains and fingers with speed.  A fair comparasin

would be using yum, urmpi, and yast on, at least similar, up to date 
hardware.

0.02
Andy
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