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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:58 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> Would it be possible to have transparent configs, e.g. a canonical
>> folder in the repo which presto checks for existance and uses it if
>> available?
>>
> <snip>
> 
> This is already implemented in yum-presto, but not yet in
> createprestorepo.  The prestomd format is actually identical to the
> repomd format with a datatype of "deltas" for presto.xml.gz file.
> Yum-presto will look in repomd.xml for "deltas" if there is no
> prestomd.xml file available.
> 
> It should be quite simple to put the small amount of code in
> createprestorepo that is different from createrepo back into createrepo
> and add a -d option to createrepo that generates presto.xml.gz and adds
> it to repomd.xml 

You could submit a patch to do this then and get any other relevant 
packages reviewed, included and then request Fedora Infrastructure team 
to run new create repo for the Fedora devel as soon as we move beyond 
Fedora 7. I don't think letting the package connect to a different repo 
by default is desirable. That doesn't scale.

Rahul