Yum-presto (deltarpms) ready for testing.

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:05 +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:34:21PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 1. why are you using md5sum and not sha1sums?
> 
> It checks if the md5sum of the file matches the sum from the rpm
> header.
> 
> It works basically like this: The "sequence" tells applydeltarpm
> which of the files from the rpm header were used to create the
> deltarpm and the order of those files (thus the name "sequence"
> in case you wondered). makedeltarpm doesn't use all files to
> create the delta, config files and files that have the "verify"
> bit off get excluded. If you ask applydeltarpm to check if a
> deltarpm can be applied it uses this sequence to verify that all
> used files are unchanged, either by just checking the size (the
> fast method) or by checking the md5sum (like rpm does).
> The fast method makes sense if the updater has a fallback to
> fetch the complete rpm if applydeltarpm failes, as in most cases
> files are unchanged if the size is the same.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
> 
And I changed Presto last night to use the full method, rather than the
fast method.  Our fallback method is pretty lousy (exiting with an
error, working the second time yum is called), at least for the moment.

Jonathan
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20070327/99ddd917/attachment.sig>