Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:27 +0100, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Now you're comparing apples and oranges. I was talking about apt from
> Extras, using repomd repositories. You're comparing yum with Debian's
> apt with their repos (different number of files and packages; should be
> greater, but I don't know if "main" contains all their packages, or is
> it something like our "Core").
>
> apt-rpm also has its own repo format which is much faster to download
> and parse than repomd. You should check it out :)
>
> Lam
I would have conducted an apt-rpm vs yum test, but I'm on x86_64, and
last time I checked, apt has lousy bi-arch support. (Did it improve)
FYI I'm using Debian unstable which has comparable number of packages.
- Gilboa
To get comparable results for apt-rpm and yum try to create
your own Rawhide-mirror ! So you can update using apt and/or yum.
My local mirror for my home network is a rpm-apt-server for at least
1 year, because yum/kyum... are definitely not usable on older machines
(<1Ghz, <256MB) whereas apt-get/synaptic are still usable.
The repository creation on the server using the yum-repo-tools after
rsyncing with one of the Rawhide-Servers consumed also too much time.
best regards
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