On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:42:16 -0800, Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org> 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,
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Konstantin Ryabitsev
Zlotniks, INC