[LUAU] apt RPM

Hawaii Linux Institute wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Thu Apr 22 15:34:48 PDT 2004


Linux is progressing so fast, I must admit that my knowledge about "apt" 
is probably totally out-of-date, and, thus, my prejudice against it is 
unjustified.

With regard to yum headers, I have always been thinking about the idea 
of making a tarball of all the downloaded headers/rpms once you have 
done your first update, then copy and untar the tarball to a new machine 
to save time.  But since I don't have too many machines, this idea never 
sees the light.  wayne


Vince Hoang wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:43:22PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote:
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>>In practice, setting up a separate http/ftp connection for
>>each file may add some time, plus other overhead dealing with
>>multiple files. But yum could download multiple headers in
>>parallel.
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>Yes, wonderful in theory, but on broadband, a mechanism requiring
>many short lived TCP sessions loses because of the overhead.
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>>RedHat does not seem to be committed to using and supporting
>>apt, though. At least not yet.
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>But fortunately the original Fedora developers still do. The new
>shell feature for apt-rpm is nice.
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>-Vince
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