Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I like Yum better because it provides
> some features I've never seen on Apt or Smart (package repackaging and
> installing packages locally - 'yum localinstall'). But it is slower than
> Apt and Smart, for now :-/
Yum has constantly got improvements in speed over almost every release.
Learn to use yum -C <operations> if you want it to run from cache on
occasions. Also the version in the Fedora development tree has a timeout
value set to 1800 seconds by default to avoid refreshing the cache on
subsequent operations which makes a pretty major difference.
On FC4 too. I got it recently. I think it is 2.4.1 version (I'm
currently on Rawhide). Here's my yum.conf:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=1
timeout=10
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
exclude=transcode*
tsflags=repackage
metadata_expire=1800
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Igor Jagec