I find both YUM and Pirut quite slow as compared to APT and Synaptic. I don't think this has anything to do with my Internet connection, since I have used APT (and Synaptic) on the very same machine and connection as YUM and Pirut. Is this really an issue with YUM?
With Yum IMO. Pirut uses Yum.
Thats right. Rohan, yes, yum is pretty slow compared to apt. Why dont you install apt for fedora?
When I first started this thread few days back, my objective was not to find a faster alternative for YUM on Fedora. I had been using Synaptic and APT on Fedora Core 2, but stopped doing so after upgrading to FC5. Partly due to my laziness, and partly due to the fact that I read APT support will slowly be discontinued in Fedora. After all if YUM is being promoted (Pirut was written for YUM replacing system-config-packages) by the Fedora Project, it should have something in it after all.
What I would like to know is WHY YUM is slower than APT is at all it is.
Cheers, Debarshi
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On 8/3/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
What I would like to know is WHY YUM is slower than APT is at all it is.
I am not quite sure about this but apparently YUM uses sqlite as a backend. That might be one of the reasons.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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I am not quite sure about this but apparently YUM uses sqlite as a backend. That might be one of the reasons.
SQLite is a pretty fast embedded DB engine. I don't think it's the bottle-neck here. May be it has got more to do with the architecture of RPM or something.
BG
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