On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:42:16 -0800, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I think the theory that "yum is fine, it's the RPM libs that are slow" > is pretty well debunked by this: > > % time rpm -qa '*mtr*' >/dev/null > 3.576u 0.121s 0:05.93 62.2% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w > % time yum -C list '*mtr*' >/dev/null > 5.474u 0.539s 0:16.41 36.5% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w No it isn't. When you are doing "rpm -qa" you are only querying the database of installed packages. When doing "yum list" you are querying installed, AND available packages, for which the metadata must be parsed and loaded. That's a significant difference, if only because the number of packages goes up from a few hundred to several thousands. Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Zlotniks, INC
