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 ? [...] > 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 -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany