On 29 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > so when you see: > find updated packages its really just computing the header.info files > from the repositories to the local rpmdb to see what's what - so at > some level that step REALLY needs to happen to make sure we know what's > what - even for an erasure. The updated package is just a calculation to > see what's what on the system. Is it taking an overly long time? It > shouldn't take very long. Nah, I just get into a mode where I think gee if it didn't look for updated packages when deleting I would save 5 seconds. Especially since the majority of my machines have local nfs access to the repositories. Obviously it is a little longer for the remote machines on 128kb isdn lines. ;) > and the downloading needed headers needs to happen if for no other > reason than to make sure you have anything you will need for dependency > resolution. Cool!! Thanks again. I have had enough fun tonight. Time to find the bed. -- ......Tom CLUELESSNESS: There Are No Stupid Questions, But tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx There Are LOTS of Inquisitive Idiots. :-) Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org
