On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 00:48 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
I'll agree with Rajko. 10.2 was God awful slow. 10.3 is relatively fast compared to 10.2.
I don't know, I'm an openSUSE user since 10.3. But I can tell that Zypper is much faster than Yum which I've been using on Fedora.
If it get way to slow, then you can delete your local index files and
Local index files are in /var/cache/zypper.db?
let zypper rebuild them. This has been mentioned in several threads. The question is how slow is slow in your case 30-90 seconds?
Crap, here's what Yast says: "Accessing the Package Management Failed, Another process is accessing the package database", but Zypper works just fine, and it finds a file in 35 seconds, which is quite fast. I don't know how did I manage to lock Yast's Package Manament.
Or is it start software management, go get a cup of coffee, and just check back to see if it is done yet slow? If the latter, then you might consider wiping your indexes and letting them be rebuilt.
I think it's a bit faster when I removed zypper.db and ran zypper refresh. -- Igor Jagec