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

[Will Woods]

On May 8, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 02:09 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>     It will be included in rawhide and after proper testing might be
>> pushed as an update to FC6/FC7 too. Or at least that's the picture  
>> I got.
>
> The packages for yum-presto and deltarpm certainly can be.  Whether  
> the
> official Fedora repositories have deltarpms enabled is a different
> matter.
>
> It would be good to do this for rawhide, however that is something  
> we'll
> have to evaluate post-F7.  Just too much stuff to look at for the time
> being.

Don't forget - F8 is only 6 or 7 months away. If enough people put  
time and effort into developing, maintaining, and testing Presto,  
there's no reason[1] it can't be installed by default for F8..

-w

[1] well, assuming the mirror maintainers are OK with carrying it..