DeltaRPM works great on Fedora Core 6 (yum presto plugin)
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Apr 11 18:31:50 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 April 2007 13:38:15 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
+10. I am in complete agreement with Jesse here.
> So let me ask. Who or which team decides this? What about application
> defaults or which packages to install by default? Is this supposed to be
> handled by release engineering or FESCo?
Things that get into the spins are handled by rel-eng. If there's
dispute, it goes up to FESCo.
> I have a suggestion for a package to be installed by default that I
> would like to see someone or a team take ownership and give me a
> decisive response.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-March/msg00032.html
You should start a separate thread on that. At first glance, it doesn't
make any sense to me at all as to how that would be useful on a liveCD.
josh
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