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On 03/13/14 09:52, Tethys wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jan Zelený
<jzeleny(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> The metadata are quite large and downloading them every single
> time is time consuming.
I can't think of an occasion on which I'd want to say "update this
package, but not to the latest version". For installing new
software, maybe. But updating an already installed package? I'd say
the default should be to check metadata in that instance.
Tet
Comparing apt and yum is silly. But I see the point. I've never been
personally all that impressed with how Debian updates packages. Fast,
maybe. Consistent? I have always had a real problem with .deb
packages and updating configuration files. Invariably I have config
files that don't get updated and don't work with the new versions.
Then I have to spend precious time updating the files by hand.
Personally, yum does a much better job of that.
Making RPMs and yum more efficient is great, don't get me wrong. But
I don't care about speed. I typically manually run updates from the
CLI every day. I prefer seeing the progress that way than from a GUI.
But, I guess that comes from years of being a command line jockey.
For example, I just did a full restore of Win7 on my Samsung netbook.
I had 82 updates to install this morning (I installed almost 200
yesterday). It took TWO HOURS to go through the installation process
(~150MB of updates) and I still had 16 updates fail to install. The
error code in the dialog was useless. That is precisely why I like
updating from the CLI.
I'm sure I'm in the minority of the general population, but there it is.
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