I've found apt and yum on my fedora box to be at least as fast as installing or updating any rpm via http or ftp.
As for LSU's linux site, it's so slow it crashed up2date every time I tried to use it. Michael ============================================================ From: Karthik Poobalasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/06/07 Mon AM 11:34:40 EDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] A Very Apropos Apt - A better way to manage packages for RPM-based Distros. Apt on a RPM system(fedora) is painsfully slow. The same case with YUM. I am not sure if its just my connection. I feel that dealing with dependency is anyday better than waiting an hour for apt to install something as trivial as mutt. -- Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Nashid Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can also use YUM to update an RPM based system. I have been using YUM for > a while and it is just as easy as apt-get. Installation is super easy too. > Just download the RPM from the following link and modify the yum.conf file to > add yum repository servers. If you are using Fedora you can add > fedora.lsu.edu to the list for faster download. > > You can get YUM from the floowing link: > > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ============================================================
