On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 19:22 +0530, elison.niven@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27 12:13:07 UTC 2012, Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com wrote > > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:44 AM, elison.niven at gmail.com: > >> I forgot to add: > >> 8) Yum cannot use an iso image as a repo without mounting it. > >> Yast in suse allows to directly use iso images as repos. > > > You also forgot to add: > > > 1) A proposed alternative > I am more than happy to propose alternatives. > Alternative 1 : Use a totally different package management system : apt-get > It is mature enough. I know this is going to be rejected totally even > without consideration. Have you actually used apt on Fedora? The main benefit apt on Debian/Ubuntu has is that the repodata is very different, making repodata updates much faster. It also helps that only Debian unstable updates as much as Fedora stable. > Alternative 2 : > Make the following changes to yum to make yum better: > 1) yum should maintain status of installed packages locally. And it > should not need to fetch repository information when user tries > yum info <installed-package> > Reason to have this feature : It seems logical to have information > about an installed package locally. AFAIK the following will only look at the local data: yum --nocolor info installed blah > 2) yum is currently downloading repository information separately for each user. > It can use the same downloaded repository information for all users. Kind of, we used to have non-root users use root's cache ... but that caused lots of annoying problems. I "have a plan" for Fedora 18, that should make things better. We'll see. > 3) Show progress in "Setting up update process" or "Setting up install process". > At present, users cannot know that is it working or sleeping. > Reason to have this feature : Better user experience There is a significant delay between these two pieces: Setting up Upgrade Process Resolving Dependencies ...is this when you are doing a full "yum upgrade" or upgrading a specific package too? How long is the delay? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
