DeltaRPM works great on Fedora Core 6 (yum presto plugin)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 11 17:38:15 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:

> 
> I really don't want to add this midstream to a released product.  The right 
> process here is to get it working in rawhide during the open development 
> cycle, start producing the content for it at the source, have it mirrored out 
> and get more and more people beating on it during rawhide.  If it survives 
> and makes it into the released product as a default, that's awesome, from 
> that point on we use it.  Trying to start at a released product and port 
> forward just seems backwards to me, and not something I want to expose all of 
> our "stable" Fedora 6 users to.

You don't expose them really to any additional risks by default. If the 
delta rpms are already mirrored, yum just ignores them without the 
plugin. Since the plugin is already in Fedora Extras users just would 
have install them explicitly to use the delta rpms.  The plugin falls 
back to downloading the full rpm if the delta rpm fails or is not 
available.

Rahul




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