On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:23:30PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha enlightened us: > tung dang wrote: > >Dear friends, > >Thanks for your reply. > >As i known, Yum is written in python script language, so it requires > >interpreter. This make Yum slowly than some update tools. > Seth could probably tell you more about this, but I don't think the main > cause for yum to be "slow" is not because it's written in python. > >If you don't mind, can you tell me more about the main differences > >between Yum3.xx and Yum2.xx, that make the speed of Yum3.xx has > >greatly improved. > > > There's the metadata parser and sqlite cache, which makes processing > package information faster. > There's also a whole lot of optimization, which in my case made yum with > priorities plugin on RHEL5 + yum 3.2 MUCH faster compared to RHEL4 with > yum 2.x. > > yum 3.x and yum 2.x has different requirements (in particular python and > rpm version). See http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml for > details. > > Centos4 comes with yum 2.4.3, and I suggest you stick with that if you > decide to use yum. I tried yum 2.6 on RHEL4 but had some problems, so > reverted back to 2.4. yum >=3 won't work because it needs python >= 2.4. > > If you want to use apt(+synaptic), you may want to start from Lineox 4. > It still uses old version of apt, so I believe it can't use yum > repositories. > > Since you're using Centos 4.5 I suggest you stick with their version of > yum. A better solution would be if you can use Centos 5, which comes > with yum 3. You can update it (manually) to latest yum 3.2.8 if you want :) > And the latest yum included in CentOS4 (yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos) uses the metadata parser written in C (yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos), so you get that speed enhancement as well. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
