> > (You wouldn't be talking about Rick Moen here would you *grin* )
How'd you guess? :) Yeah Rick and I've butted heads a few times in SVLUG. He used to be really prolific, but I haven't heard from him in a while. I mostly lurk in SVLUG anyway. > 1. Space... pulling down roughly the equivalent of your install into > /var might be a problem. I see that ans an issue as well. Since it's been said that apt-get gets than installs then gets some more it's better for disk-starved things. A full update to cooker could take lots of room (I'm doing one now, in fact) and while you want to keep closely related packages in cache for dependency issues, there are plenty of stand-alone packages that have no other dependencies. Once they're installed and committed there's little reason to keep them in cache - one should be able to overwrite packages if for no other reason than to save space, or at least to reuse it. The other thing I've noticed is that uprmi sends a set of separate ftp requests for each package it thinks you need, logging in and retrieving one package at a time. I think it would be better to just issue the set of gets for all the packages at once. Also if a site is hung, you have to back out of the update for that site, and there's no way at least to me to have multiple sources for each package -- you have to urpmi.removemedia and then urpmi.addmedia for the alternate source. I dunno if that's true with apt-get. > James
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