Re: Feature request

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Erlend Midttun wrote:
> If this was the real reason for the tinysofa swap, I consider it based on
> bad research.

here is the text I read pertaining to swup/apt, it also talks of yum:

Omar Kilani wrote:
> APT provides a stable, secure, well tested, easy to use, and
> completely extensible package management system. It has been in use
> by Debian since 1998, cryptographically checks repository meta data
> and packages for authenticity, is simple to use and is fully
> extensible via the lua scripting language (which is simple enough for
> anyone to write their own package management functionality with.)
> 
> The advantages of APT over existing package management tools are
> numerous. Apart from the above mentioned features, the stability and
> speed of APT's network access methods are unmatched by any of the
> currently available Python based package management tools.
> 
> Additionally, the way in which APT handles repository meta data is,
> in my view, far superior to the "header caching" that is utilized by
> YUM/SWUP/etc. A "one compressed file per repository" approach makes
> more sense in the majority of cases than a "one file for every
> repository, file, package and resource" approach.
> 
> To demonstrate this point, one can compare an update/upgrade with yum
> to an update/upgrade done with apt. If one wanted to install package
> 'foo' with yum, they would issue the 'yum install foo', command. Yum
> then proceeds to download 8 megabytes of seemingly irrelevant headers
> (it's network access routines failing over from one site to another
> every few headers), and finally retrieves the foo package and it's
> dependencies, and installs them. In comparison, apt downloads a 600KB
> compressed file that describes the whole distribution tree, and then
> simultaneously downloads foo and all it's dependencies. Re-running
> the exact command used (yum install foo) somehow results in more
> irrelevant headers being downloaded, one at a time, and then a
> message stating that package foo is already installed. apt, on the
> other hand, instantly displays the same message.
> 
> A transfer test comparing apt, swup and yum in a "there have been no
> updates" scenario with the same package repository, shows apt
> transferring 686 bytes, swup transferring 25 kilobytes, and yum
> transferring 10 kilobytes.
> 
> One final "killer feature" of apt is the ability to use a CD ROM as a
> package repository, automatically handling mounting and un-mounting
> of media, as well as treating the CD ROM source preferentially to
> remote sources.

Cheers,
-- 
Morten

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