-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/14 09:52, Tethys wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> The metadata are quite large and downloading them every single >> time is time consuming. > > I can't think of an occasion on which I'd want to say "update this > package, but not to the latest version". For installing new > software, maybe. But updating an already installed package? I'd say > the default should be to check metadata in that instance. > > Tet > Comparing apt and yum is silly. But I see the point. I've never been personally all that impressed with how Debian updates packages. Fast, maybe. Consistent? I have always had a real problem with .deb packages and updating configuration files. Invariably I have config files that don't get updated and don't work with the new versions. Then I have to spend precious time updating the files by hand. Personally, yum does a much better job of that. Making RPMs and yum more efficient is great, don't get me wrong. But I don't care about speed. I typically manually run updates from the CLI every day. I prefer seeing the progress that way than from a GUI. But, I guess that comes from years of being a command line jockey. For example, I just did a full restore of Win7 on my Samsung netbook. I had 82 updates to install this morning (I installed almost 200 yesterday). It took TWO HOURS to go through the installation process (~150MB of updates) and I still had 16 updates fail to install. The error code in the dialog was useless. That is precisely why I like updating from the CLI. I'm sure I'm in the minority of the general population, but there it is. - -- Mark Haney Network/Systems Administrator Practichem W: (919) 714-8428 Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTIbrFAAoJEM/YzwEAv6e70lMIAK1GCGnGyP3xHVXh3OEe1fUy gEfDWMyPv0D+N7eUcAiV6kFQnvA+Tl1H4kGhvAdOnRo4K2cFKi70zoi7ro8zIkwx A/RdPI5Knu6pLqNHyHKCnWgimSdBcwl6UTNYi6mtubC1Ys+YIqXnI02i3BQJ44tw aHvxRfTQiVY3ItbYzIzs7RAFGvB7sAWbrE5TIc62gQf6nyEhy4GJx62OyBDbNSJf xnyaDRkYUxMBNcOofkjIR8Njtm96Y+HFV99muiJ2cd+GXmRYXX87yCcDfxw6VBVa aE0Gy3bjFywpBUG7j/kYMP89akSrBwQp3bCoXkNKLlKacrXGdQbgbUCaEaAVgS8= =9rMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
