Hi Troy,

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> hi,
>> 
>> Greg just pointed out on the centos-devel list that you are using a newer 
>> than in EL5 version of yum for SL-5/Alpha and I was just wondering what 
>> were the reasons why this is so ?

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> Second: version 3.0.3 is much faster than version 3.0.  The yum development 
> team is working on speeding up yum.  They are getting insanely picky in 
> functions and calls.  Most of these changes are in their unstable track, but 
> some of the more reasonable changes have been back ported.  I was having a 
> hard time with how slow 3.0.0 was.

Oh yes: A "yum provides libpython2.4.so.1.0" with a primed cache takes
20 seconds on RH beta2, and 2.5 on SL5 alpha. And oh, the former is a 3 
GHz Woodcrest, and the latter a 2.13 GHz Core2.

Stephan
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