[PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 14 22:55:40 IST 2008


Pranav Peshwe wrote:

>>
> 
> Cool!
> 
> Are there any improvements in yum ?

Sure. Yum performance continues to improve and this release has a much 
better version.

http://skvidal.wordpress.com/page/2/

Also you have a yum reinstall option to reinstall packages easily for 
whatever reasons. The multi-lib policy has also changed so that it will 
install only the "best" architecture packages (ie) it wont install both 
x86 and x86-64 libs. This is configurable if you prefer the previous 
behaviour.

The major related improvement of course is PackageKit. PackageKit is a 
distribution neutral framework and frontend. Refer http://packagekit.org 
for more details.

Rahul




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