How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover
<justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any current work on yum-presto, deltarpm or some other method of
> getting the downloads for updates to be smaller and quicker?

IIRC The work on the client side was done, but it lacked the necessary
bits on the infrastructure side to make it happen by default for all
packages.

You may want to search in fedora-devel archives for more info

>  Can you
> compress rpm's to make the the downloads faster?

rpms _are_ compressed; we also had arguments about using alternate
(possibly more efficient) compression algorithms but the outcome was
it is not worth the trouble.


>
> Is deltarpm's the solution?

I think so

> Has anyone talked to all the fedora mirrors to
> have a deltarpm repository?

That's not the problem. The problem is that deltarpm info has to be
prepared somewhere during the rpm build phase, so it will be available
for all mirrors to pick up. IIRC the "somewhere" is in mock but please
double check with fedora-devel archives.

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