monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[Riku Seppälä]

Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Riku Seppälä wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Just curious how much memory you have? I only have 1GB and I was thinking
>>>> could that be the problem.
>>>> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html
>>>>         
>>>   it is, in fact, 1G.  so that could be an issue?  uh oh ...
>>>       
>> I doubt it.  I have 512M in my test machine and I went through a
>> recent transaction of around 1400 packages without any troubles.
>>
>> An old laptop which used to have 256M of memory was just awfully
>> slow with yum updates (it does not run rawhide but Fedora).  Now I
>> found a fitting module, which doubled that memory, and updates got
>> much faster.
>>
>> I would start with
>>
>>   yum update rpm\* yum\*
>>
>> before going with the rest.
>>     
>
> I would *really*, *really* like to see yum just do that automagically!
> Anyone know if that's been bz'd?
> I searched, but am not patient enough right now for my 900+ bug "yum"
> search, nor to fine tune it.
>
> Thanks,
> jerry
>
>   
It's been suggested 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg02174.html