Yum slower than apt

[Mike Fedyk]

Mike Ramirez wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:46, Serge de Souza wrote:
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>>yum seems to download the headers every time you run it and can take 
>>aaages even on a very fast connection.
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>>Serge
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>You can run yum check-update as a cron to download the headers and then
>yum -C install $package to use the Cache it will run through the servers
>but not check them.
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Last time I tried that it still tried updating the headers.  Try it with 
yum -C search and see what happens...