delta rpm's for RPM Fusion?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:48:02 +0200, Thorsten wrote:

> On 12.05.2009 03:01, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Any plans to support this in RPM Fusion? 
> 
> Besides "would be nice to have": not that I'm aware of.

There's the old thread from November. Some unanswered questions (hardware
resources, repo layout, verifying that the buildsys machine has the needed
deps available and installed), not much buy-in. Also, deltarpms tools have
had some problems, such as exiting with error return-code for empty but
valid repos. Things like that need a decision.

> Well, you need the old RPM to create deltas, but right now those
> immediately get deleted for the rawhide trees (which can be changed
> easily, but keeping one older versions for each package in rawhide would
> waste some space)).

Hmmm, we've had to work around many issue for Fedora Extras since day one.
Space constraints, fatal bugs in createrepo and other tools, ... with Rawhide
(and as a last resort if repo space matters) one could modify RepoPrune
to not delete packages but move them elsewhere where they would be
available for deltarpms creation. They could be deleted afterwards.