What happened to rawhide infrastructure (mirrors)?

Thu Apr 23 18:08:07 UTC 2009

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:53:33PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > ... but today I got 25 updates that downloaded quickly thanks to
> > yum-presto and the dawn of the deltaRPM epoch.
>
> Does not matter if yum-presto works or not.  If your download speed
> is reduced by a factor of 30-50 due to a use of a really distant
> servers then deltaRPM gains will be totally insignificant.
>

It still matters. The larger use case for deltarpms (imnsho) is in saving
transfer quota, not time. It's just a bonus if you save time too, if you
happen to be the type who likes to stare at update progress instead of
multitasking.

-- 
Jason
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