[ale] Fedora 15

[Rich Faulkner]

Interesting.  Yum seems to move fast enough to me and gets me out of
trouble when gpk-application takes a dump.  That has happened more than
once in F12 and yum has always come through.  Might be interesting to
test two VM's side-by-side and see who wins?  Apt, dpkg or yum?



On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 15:03 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 11:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: 
> > I find it odd that you had such major problems so quickly, considering
> > F15 was just released yesterday.  If you were using a F15 pre-release,
> > well, that could certainly be the explanation of your issues.
> > 
> > As for the package manager being slow, I think it's just a perception
> > thing.  It also depends on your network connection.  I've found apt to
> > be slow at times, too.  It all depends what needs to be done, and how
> > recently you've run it.
> > 
> > I plan to install F15 today once my new hard drive arrives.
> >   
> I installed it a couple of weeks ago, but I wound up removing it
> yesterday because I was still having some troubles with it.  I'll
> admit to part of my troubles being a lack of familiarity with the
> packaging system—I feel "at home" with dpkg and APT.  I can use rpm
> alright, but this yum thing is just slow.  It seems to take forever
> for the "resolving dependencies" step, and I had a problem where it
> couldn't resolve dependencies.  I've had problems with RPM-based
> distributions failing to resolve dependencies as far back as the first
> Red Hat (version 5.2 from the 90s) that I had ever installed.  My
> understanding then was that it was a repository issue of some sort.
> But the thing is that I've never had such a problem with APT: it has
> always resolved dependencies correctly, but if a dependency is
> unavailable, it will say "I cannot install package foo because the
> package isn't in the repository" and trying 30 minutes later usually
> yields success.
> 
>     --- Mike
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