On 4/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Keating</b> <<a href="mailto:jkeating@redhat.com">jkeating@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:27:45 Jonathan Dieter wrote:<br>> Jesse, I totally understand where you're coming from on the "it should<br>> have been started in Rawhide". I'm afraid that's my fault, though I'll
<br>> beg extenuating circumstances. I live and work in Beirut where<br>> broadband means anything but (thus my interest in the problem in the<br>> first place).<br><br>Well, even if development started in fc6, that's fine. I think DEPLOYMENT
<br>should begin with rawhide, and work its way down.<br><br>> Finally, when we do get to the point of "do we put deltarpms in the<br>> master mirror", *if* we decide *not* to (for the many reasons mentioned
<br>> by those against the idea), is it possible for yum-presto in Extras to<br>> point to the test server in the default .conf file?<br><br>Typically we don't allow packages other than fedora-release to add repo files.
<br>Maybe we could grant an exception for this package for a temporary time<br>being, but once a repo file is on, it is difficult to get it off, so wherever<br>you point you might want to be willing to at least maintain a redirect to
<br>somewhere where content lives.<br><br>--<br>Jesse Keating<br>Release Engineer: Fedora</blockquote><div><br><br>Hi, can you please update us with the status of yum-presto and Fedora 7?<br><br>I installed Fedora 7 test 4 and I don't see yum-prest and deltarpm installed by default.
<br><br>Will this change in the mean time so it is installed by default when Fedora 7 ships?<br><br>I can only say that deltarpm is a great idea, and works great in practice (on Fedora Core 6 - I still haven't tested it on Fedora 7).
<br><br>It is maybe little less needed when people install new pacgakes but for updates it is a godsend...<br><br>You should think how to enable more and more people to use linux, and great features like fast updates with small bandwidth cost is a really big benefit to linux users.
<br><br>There are millions of people with dialup and other slow connections on our planet and updates for them are almost impossible. Or students<br>with laptops who can do some big installs when they are at their university but at home have also slow connection.
<br><br>For all of them bandwidth is scarce and deltarpms is a great solution to that problem so please do all you can with implementing it.<br><br>Thank you in advance.<br><br>Valent from Croatia.<br></div><br></div>-- <br>
<a href="http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/">http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/</a><br>linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless<br>registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, <a href="http://counter.li.org">
http://counter.li.org</a>.<br>ICQ: 2125241<br>Skype: valent.turkovic