On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:36:29PM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > - Is there some way to make yum cache all that crap? I'd be > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list (speed of yum discussion exceised). Related yum question on (lack of?) speed when large number of updates to do. After doing a fresh install, the first yum update can take (for me) hours - this is after I have pre populated the local cache (/var/cache/yum) from another just installed/updated machine - so no downloads to do at all. The number of updates to be done is of course quite large at this point. By breaking this update up into a few separate upates e.g yum update x*; yum update kern*; yum update g*; yum udpate The time taken seems to be very substantially less (human perception unfortunatly I have no benchmarks). I wonder if there is some inefficiency with the dependency tree when the number of updates is large that is reduced by hand breaking the updates into smaller chunks. regards, g/
