rexonf wrote:
I kinda get the feeling that yum sucks.
No, Yum does not suck.
It is powerful and flexible and is actively maintained and developed at
Duke.edu.
Yum is an excellent and automatic updater and package installer/remover
for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out
what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to
maintain
groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
Why doesn't it cache the package info (like urpmi for example)?
It does cache packages under the directory /var/cache/yum.
I know there's an advantage to not caching as you never have to update
the cache. But in practice this only slows things down and isn't the
point of having an automated rpm is to speed up installation?
When installations and/or updating slows down usually it is due to the
Internet
connections and not due to YUM. When this happens you just have to
understand it is not Yum but events outside of Yum's control.
Then you have to edit a config file to setup repos (as compared to
easyurpmi for example).
From my experience, when I get errors like for example the mirror
site is not responding, I'd edit out the site and run Yum again. And
everything goes it's merry way.
On 7/18/06, Gideon Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just recently installed centos4.3. i tried installing some software
and
> found out that yum is taking some time to process.
Have you edited you repository list on /etc/yum.conf or
/etc/yum.repos.d/* ?
I've used apt-get and it's relatives and friends for years but after
switching to
Yum I've not looked back since. You just have to learn what Yum is capable
of.
Hope this helps.
O Plameras
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