How can we speed up rpm downloads?

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 16:12:19 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:54 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover
> <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Guess I answered my own question earlier, I ran gzip on
> openopfice.org-core
> > and it went from 84MB to 83MB.
> rpms are already compressed.
>
> > Fairly loaded question, don't say get a better ISP, I have a very fast
> > connection at home, and this d/l view was taken at work with an extremely
> > fat pipe.  The problem is size of rpm's being downloaded.
> >
> > Debian seems to d/l much faster, not exact version but you can get some
> idea
> > size wise.
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/etch/openoffice.org-core
> >
> > wget
> >
> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-core_2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5_amd64.deb
> >
> > There package is 34MB.
> >
> > This is an example of one of the larger apps out there I realize that, I
> > just grabbed the last one to use as an example.  At 34MB it still takes
> > time, but .deb is 50MB cheaper that the .rpm.
>
> you are comparing two different packages (2.0.4 and 2.4)
>
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Here 38MB, still close to 50MB cheaper.

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-core_2.4.1-2_amd64.deb

http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/openoffice.org-core/download
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