Here's a typical use case for yum with me:
- notice that "xmtr" is not installed (but "mtr" is)
- yum list '*mtr*'
- wait through ~60 seconds of:
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=================| 951 B
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ############################################# 2622/2622
updates-re: ############################################# 405/405
- yum -y install mtr-gtk
- wait through that same ~60 seconds of junk before it actually
starts downloading the package.
So my questions are:
- Is there some way to make yum cache all that crap? I'd be
perfectly ok with it just reusing the same repository data
for days at a time. Certainly there's no need to re-download
it every single time I invoke yum.
- If there's no way to do that... how can you guys stand it?
Do you really suffer through this every time, or do you just
not use yum? Is there something else I should be using instead?
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