Re: delta rpm's for RPM Fusion?

On 14.05.2009 21:10, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 21:02 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> 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. From my point of view: * hardware resources are afaics not a problem here, as we have only a few packages when compared to Fedora and it doesn't take that long to generate the deltas afaics * what impact woult delta support have apart from a (automatically generated) drpms/ sub-directory on the same level as repodata/ * buildsys got all that is needed already to support stronger hashes * more and more users ask for delta rpms and it would be nice to support them >> Also, deltarpms tools have >> had some problems, such as exiting with error return-code for empty but >> valid repos. /me wonders if it works better now that the