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

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:25 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mi April 11 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > It is still not something I want to do to a released product, or even
> > Fedora 7 after the feature freeze.  The generation of the delta rpms, the
> > layout, the use of the plugin, etc.. these are all codepaths that need more
> > exposure/testing during an open development phase.  I think it's great that
> > you guys have gotten it to the point it is now, and I really look forward
> > to seeing it get wider use once we start up Fedora 8.  I just don't want to
> > add new features/functionality into 7 and 6.
> 
> With the plugin already beeing in Fedora Extras 6, the feature is already 
> there. Also Nearly every new Extras package is also built for the supported 

But it isn't really used if the deltarpms don't exist.  You still need a
repo with those in it.  Without the actual deltarpms in the official
repos, you aren't really enabling the feature.  So for people to actual
_use_ it, they'd have to manually add a repo containing the deltarpms.

josh