[ale] Fedora 15

[Pete Hardie]

+1 on yum "just working", at least  99% of the time.  I converted
about FC11, and it's been good nearly all the
time.  It has sometimes been slow, but I run on old hardware and
behind crappy IFITL DSL, so I'm used to slow.


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 15:13, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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> 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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