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

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 11 10:39:37 UTC 2007


Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:46:30AM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> RPM build speed is also much better that SUSE updater!
>> Bravo for yum-presto team!
> 
> What's rpm build speed? If you mean the applydeltarpm time, it's
> because SUSE uses bzip2 for payload compression, which is much
> slower than gzip.

That probably does explain the speed difference. Looks like we are 
trading in disk space for better performance. Why was bzip2 compression 
chosen in SUSE? How much disk space do you save on disk by using bzip2?

Rahul




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