Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 1 20:22:16 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta 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.
> > 
> > 
> > yum -C list installed gimp
> 
> It still wastes a lot of time, although I'm looking at fc6 - maybe it is 
> better on newer versions:
> 
> # time rpm -q gimp
> gimp-2.2.17-1.fc6
> real    0m0.129s
> 
> [root at moola ~]# time yum -C list installed gimp
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Installed Packages
> gimp.i386                     2:2.2.17-1.fc6         installed
> real    0m3.566s
> 
> And it gets worse on machines with more repos installed.

yum latest on fc6 is over 15 releases of yum ago.

And that's been over a year.

Please don't make comments about things from that long ago.

-sv





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