Hey all, I have been using yum with Fedora Core 1 and it has been working well. One thing I have noticed and seen people complaining about is the time to download the headers. I have a couple of ideas on how this could be improved. Yum is much slower than apt but it isn't transmitting lots more data. The yum headers are only twice the size of the apt lists for the same repository. I think the problem is the latency with downloading lots of little files. The two solutions I thought of were: 1. Use HTTP pipelining. HTTP 1.1 allows sending multiple requests before reading the responses. I don't know if the Python httplib supports pipelining. 2. Put the headers in an archive. The initial fetch of a repository would download the archive if present and unpack it. Later updates would fetch the individual headers. - Ian -- ian@xxxxxxxxx http://www.znark.com/
