On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 23:58 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: > > > In Fedora 10, it looks like yum downloads updates in ascending order on the > > size of the package. So all the small packages download first, and the large > > packages like openoffice download last. In Fedora 11, that is how it started > > out. But now yum appears to be downloading packages alphabetically by package > > name. That means if package "a" is very large it will still be downloaded > > before package "b" which is quite small. > > > > I'm using Fedora 11 Beta just about 100% of the time now. > > > > How can I get yum to download in ascending order on the size of the package? > > I love getting all the little downloads first. That is most of the updates, > > leaving only a few large packages to do at the end. > > > > the download by pkg size behavior was changed precisely b/c of how many > raving complaints we got about it. > > Seems like we can't win. > > > And the first person to say "well then make it an option" gets told to > stop talking until they're maintaining the code. ---- those are the people who infuriate you by eating the icing from the middle of the Oreo's first. I'm clearly just eat the cookie kind of person. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
