Re: Fedora and Ubuntu

Les Mikesell wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:

I have both Ubuntu and Fedora installed. The update services are
different but in no way
is the Ubuntu system significantly better or faster.

The big difference in the way it feels is that apt-get caches the
repository info until you tell it to update it, where yum does this slow
step on every operation even if it was just done seconds earlier.

Is this what you are talking about?

metadata_expire
Time (in seconds) after which the metadata will expire. So that
if the current metadata downloaded is less than this many seconds
old then yum will not update the metadata against the repository.
If you find that yum is not downloading information on updates as
often as you would like lower the value of this option.

Mikkel
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