Is it possible to speed up yum.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:58 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 07:19 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't. It refreshes it if metadata_expire seconds (defined
> > in /etc/yum.conf) have elapsed since the last time it was run. Since I
> > deliberately updated both systems just before running the test, there
> > was no network activity. This is explained in the post.
> > 
> 
> Try this out for me?
> 
> yum -d3 [whatever_command_here] | grep 'time:'
> 
> and send the output along.

# yum -d3 info yum | grep 'time:'
Config time: 0.182
rpmdb time: 0.000
pkgsack time: 7.505
#

> And is this 3.2.16 or 3.2.14?

# rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch

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