On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > On 05/28/2011 07:30 AM, Freak Trick wrote: >> Thanks! For the reply. But yum itself is horribly slow on F15 beta. > > This may not help now, but you should install the presto and > fastest-mirror plugins for yum. Presto only downloads delta-rpms (They > only contain what's changed since the last time they were updated.) and > rebuilds the rpms on the fly. This can save at least 80% of your > download time. Between the two of them, they can make updating your > system much faster.
It's a trade-off. If you have a fast internet connection but a slow processor you might actually be better off downloading the full rpm instead of waiting for your processor to decompress and/or merge the deltas. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
