Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

[seth vidal]

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