Comments on: yum and ZYpp speed / memory usage

By: felipe alvarez

felipe alvarez — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:04:47 +0000

I was asking myself the other day, "Why doesn't openSUSE just use yum for package management."

I have the answers now.

zypper still needs some more work, however. I can't seem to find a way to show the installed packages that require PACKAGE (so that I can remove PACKAGE without upsetting the system), or show what packages PACKAGE requires (to measure how much I will need to download and install before installing PACKAGE).

All-in-all I like the effort openSUSE puts in to create a decent distro.

Felipe

By: k:blog » openSUSE 11.0

k:blog » openSUSE 11.0 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:38:09 +0000

[...] után a SOLV fájlokban történt változások, valamint az új solver szignifikáns teljesítménynövekedést eredményezettés kevesebb memóriát igényel összehasonlítva a Smarttal és a [...]

By: Sandy Armstrong: Busy busy busy | Developer Home

Sandy Armstrong: Busy busy busy | Developer Home — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:28:34 +0000

[...] Zypper is wicked fast, and is now my favorite way to manage packages. All it lacks is tab-completion of package names, but running zypper se somepackage is so fast that I don’t mind too much. [...]

By: Duncan Mac-Vicar P. » Blog Archive » The greatest unknown openSUSE 11.0 package management feature

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:22:21 +0000

[...] improvements like the fast installation, how YaST became sexy, how YaST/ZYpp/zypper became fast, how YaST/ZYpp/zypper performs better than others and even that our solver is also really [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:46:24 +0000

If the repo is on your local disk make sure you echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as root to drop the kernel’s file cache before the start of a run (otherwise later runs may have the advantage of not doing disk I/O)

By: stick

stick — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:53:15 +0000

I was very surprised that my home project (home:prusnak) appeared between the test repositories. What was so interesting about it that it made to the list?

By: F2

F2 — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:24:54 +0000

cool – you have Gravatar support I see

By: F2

F2 — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:24:19 +0000

Great work Duncan!

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:18:35 +0000

( and you will see that you could test those cases yourself we provide the complete simulation environment )

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:18:03 +0000

For those smart test cases see my new posts:

Solving the famous “smart” case 2

Solving the famous “smart” case 3