On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:25 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > > > > >> The main reason would be that for most of the commands, yum decides for > >> itself each time whether or not it will spend several minutes chatting > >> with repositories and mucking around the rpm database before getting > >> back to the human that may have not typed the right question the first > >> time. Meanwhile the human will get bored and read email lists to fill > >> his time. > > > > Feel free to back up the above with some numbers, please. Yum shouldn't > > spend anytime 'mucking around the rpm database'. If you can find a place > > where it is please let us know in a bug report. > > I'd already posted that, but .129s real time for rpm vs. 3.566s for yum > to show an installed program version. Most of the time seemed to be in > the 'loading modules' phase. > > > If you want to run yum w/o having it access remote locations then do > > what james said, set your metadata expiration to -1 so it never expires > > and use that. > > I don't want it to 'never' access repos, just not in the middle of > several queries that would be faster without having to load and > initialize each time. And I especially don't want to have to make > non-default settings on every machine to make it behave reasonably. 1. use a modern version of yum, not fc6's 2. use 'yum shell' -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
