Re: [plug] Yum problem

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus]

"Kenneth P. Oncinian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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
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.

Hi guys,

It's working now. I didnt tweak anything. Really weird....

Tnx a lot.

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