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

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 13 06:20:57 UTC 2009


On 06/13/2009 11:43 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:45:03 +0200,
>   Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>>
>> I also hope we'll see LZMA payloads soon. Gzip is really bad. Other
>> distributions have at least been using bzip2, which compresses
>> significantly better, but Fedora refused it for CPU consumption reasons.
>> LZMA is faster than bzip2, at least for decompression, and usually
>> compresses better. (It compresses a lot better than gzip in any case.)
> 
> And not just for rpms. I am hoping that mksquashfs is able to use lzma
> before f12 is released as that will shrink the live images quite a bit.

Filed a RFE?

Rahul




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