I remember having this problem with YUM, beat the hell out of the #centos guys in freenode in attempt to at least understand why YUM is failing on me... the consensus of the channel was I have a proxy connection between me and the YUM repository.
The suggested solution was simple (but not elegant), a local repository of my own :(. regards, Kenneth P. Oncinian Information Systems Division Panasonic Communications Philippines Corporation ----- Original Message ----- From: O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:46:47 AM GMT-0200 Subject: Re: [plug] Does yum suck? Was: Yum problem 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 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
