https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194472 ------- Comment #4 from kern@sibbald.com 2006-10-12 02:27 MST ------- For certain operations, yast2 is really great because it is quite complete, and the installer is the best installer of all the distros I have seen. However, for doing updates, which are confusingly called "patches" in yast, it is a nightmare from two standpoints. 1. Your "updates" repository frequently gets into a condition where the dependencies of the updates cannot be met. This is currently the case for updates to yast and zmd. With yast, it is very difficult to exclude the troublesome updates. Perhaps this problem occurs because I do not permit automatic updates, which means if I wait a few weeks, you may have updates to updates. In any case, your update repository is not complete and consistent. 2. As is the subject of this bug report, your yast package update/install process is too slow by several orders of magnitude, which means it is totally unusable in a large shop of more than 1 or 2 computers. I recently switched to using yumex and this has pretty much resolved this problem as well as given me a relatively simple way of getting around point one. I've also turned off the zmd daemon as it periodically wakes up and eats all my cpu time preventing me from working -- this is particularly serious on my 700MH laptop. 3. The version of yumex that you distribute is *way* out of date. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but hope this will help you understand that the default yast package updater is a big handycap for professional shops. One final thing. Your method of entering repositories via a GUI is nice for dummies, but is another nightmare for sys admins. I have yet to find a simple ASCI file where I can edit the repositories -- I hope you have not defined this in the traditional Windows way using binary files. On the other hand, once I took the trouble to set up a yum repository using my trusty editor it, unlike yast, it is trivial to bring it up on another machine -- I just copy the files in /etc/yum.d to the new machine -- presto I am up and running. Yumex sometimes seems slow, but it is 10 - 100 times faster than yast. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.