Fresh Fedora 11 fetches 362MB+ of updates, where's deltaRPM?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Jun 12 18:35:39 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> said:
> I have several computers and I'm not short of bandwidth (gosh, it's nice to be
> able to say that) but it's still nice to be able to get things done
> efficiently.  But Rahul said that some mirror folks might prefer to avoid the
> extra processing required by the deltarpm stuff in favour of the use of extra
> bandwidth.

Is there additional processing needed on the mirrors?  I thought this
was just the additional drpms directory as far as mirrors as concerned
(which mirrors could exclude if desired and they'd be dropped from the
appropriate mirrorlist files).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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