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Faster updates with yum-prestoFaster updates with yum-prestoPosted Apr 23, 2009 15:16 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396)In reply to: Faster updates with yum-presto by sbergman27 Parent article: Faster updates with yum-presto
No one sane has all packages installed. What's the impact on a typical desktop user? Server? Do the update sizes come from a few large packages or lots of little ones? Those are the questions you want to answer.
Thinking in terms of "all packages" is often wrong. And yes, defining "typical" is hard. I'd take the default comps group as a baseline and go from there.
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Faster updates with yum-presto Posted Apr 23, 2009 19:12 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
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No one sane has all packages installed. """
So? I never said they did. Determining the update load for a typical install is not quite so straightforward. Never clean the yum cache, let the gigabytes accumulate, and check with 'du' I guess.
As an admin, however, I can say from experience that the Fedora patch load is *far* greater than that of any other distro I'm aware of, both in gigabytes, and in headaches when one of the many, many, many patches does something unexpected. (Churn yields burns.)
There are *lots* of reasons I migrated the Fedora servers to other distros, and extreme patch load is one of them.
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