delta rpm's for RPM Fusion?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.05.2009 14:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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


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