On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
but replying that they should use apt instead is just not very nice to your users.
I don't want to get involved into yum vs. apt vs. something-else debates, but I'd also like to express my point of view, however insignificant it may be.
Fedora, CentOS and recent versions of RHEL, which are the distributions your (Dag's) repo is targeted to, use yum as the default updating and package adding/removing mechanism. Whether this is a good decision or not, it's a different issue and you have all the rights to show your protest in any way you see fit. However, telling the users "you can't use my repo unless you switch to apt" makes you repo incompatible with the very distributions that you want to support.
I've asked already on this list if there is anything that can be done to improve the situation. I know that creating yum repodata is slow, I maintain a local repo with only 100+ packages and I'm lucky that they don't actually update too often. Can a better setup (hardware or software) improve this ?
Can splitting the repo into several smaller ones bring the needed improvement ? (based f.e. on RPM "Group" property or some loose definition of Sysadmin, Multimedia, Science, etc.) yum itself can easily handle multiple repositories and f.e. CentOS does a good job of separation with centosplus, extras, etc.
You're generally doing a magnificent job though, thanks for that.
My sentiments exactly ! :-) -- Bogdan Costescu IWR, University of Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Phone: +49 6221 54 8869/8240, Fax: +49 6221 54 8868/8850 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
