zif – Package management done faster
On Fedora 16, I used zif. zif is an alternative to yum and its fast!
How to setup zif?
So easy: sudo yum install zif zif-tools
All set!
Search for packages using zif:
sudo zif search mongodb
Do a offline serach ( like cached -C in yum ):
sudo zif search -o mongodb
Install packages using zif:
sudo zif install mongodb-server mysql-server
Update all packages:
sudo zif update
And if you feel like canceling the operation using Ctrl+C, it happens almost instantaneously!
I like it.
rich, 
Michael 9:57 am on November 27, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks for sharing.
Any idea why this is not the default package manager for Fedora? If it has all the mentioned benefits including all of the functionality of yum, this would make sense (to me).?
Mike Manilone 10:11 am on June 23, 2012 Permalink |
I guess, the Fedora Project, even Red Hat, preferred Python much! Another reason is that zif is not well-tested and do not have a big developer group just like yum’s.
tuxdna 3:43 pm on November 28, 2011 Permalink |
No idea!
rich 6:03 pm on November 29, 2011 Permalink |
I’d love to see faster and more intelligent depsolving, either in yum or some alternative (zif, zypper?)
There was a rather extensive argument on fedora-devel-list a few months ago about this, if you can stomach it:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-September/thread.html#157023