Linux is progressing so fast, I must admit that my knowledge about "apt"
is probably totally out-of-date, and, thus, my prejudice against it is
unjustified.
With regard to yum headers, I have always been thinking about the idea
of making a tarball of all the downloaded headers/rpms once you have
done your first update, then copy and untar the tarball to a new machine
to save time. But since I don't have too many machines, this idea never
sees the light. wayne
Vince Hoang wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:43:22PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote:
In practice, setting up a separate http/ftp connection for
each file may add some time, plus other overhead dealing with
multiple files. But yum could download multiple headers in
parallel.
Yes, wonderful in theory, but on broadband, a mechanism requiring
many short lived TCP sessions loses because of the overhead.
RedHat does not seem to be committed to using and supporting
apt, though. At least not yet.
But fortunately the original Fedora developers still do. The new
shell feature for apt-rpm is nice.
-Vince
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