On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:10, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > Seth writes: > > Get rid of all headers, forever. > > > > It's not quite that simple but it's close. > [snip] > > Gotcha. > > The reason I ask is that I'm doing some experimental work on ways to > leverage open source software to bridge the digital divide (through both the > recycling of older hardware and the use of wireless broadband networking to > form community network cooperatives). My recent success at integrating yum > into the enterprise network during my day job naturally leads me to want to > use it for my hobby projects. > > The target system I'm building for is a Pentium 100MHz with 128M RAM and > 1.2G hard drive (partly because I have a couple of these around, and partly > because this is a very obtainable configuration for someone looking for > super cheap or free hardware if you look around). > > A stripped down box with 128M of RAM starts swapping quite a bit while > running "yum update" but I'll chalk this one up as a fact of life and merely > suggest letting yum run in the wee hours to avoid causing performance > problems. Use smaller, but dependency-resolved repositories. So any given run only runs on a few hundred packages - rather than the complete 1500 that are RHL. -sv
