up2date hang on dependency test

[Will Backman]

This is an upgrade from the test 3 CDs, so there are a few.
It is also taking up a lot of RAM.
This is a 400Mhz machine.  Not a speedy one, but it should be ok.

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:58, Ricky Boone wrote:
> > Upgrade from RedHat9 to Fedora Core, test 3.
> > Downloaded latest up2date from rawhide, rpm -Fvh up2date*.rpm
> > up2date -u --nosig sits there for a very very long time on testing
> > package set/solving RPM inter-dependencies. (like an hour...)  I get
> > tired of waiting and ctl+c it.
> > I even ran rpm --rebuilddb and tried again.
> > Anyone else getting this?
> 
> I'm running mine through the gui and getting the same delay.  Move the
> up2date window around and it looks to be frozen, and CPU usage by the
> program is at 100%.  It eventually gets over it, and get's onto
> downloading the packages.
> 
> How many packages are you trying to update?  If it's as many as I think it
> is (I had a fresh Fedora Core Test 3 install and it took -forever- to
> download all the headers, test them, download and install the packages),
> then it's probably normal.  An hour seems to be like a long time though...
> hmmm.
> 
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