Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

[David Kaufmann]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 06:29:13PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and
> without any
>  real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. But that's
>  definitely plan B. We can point people who are in low-bandwidth situations
>  at Silverblue, CoreOS, and Kinoite as the preferred approach. 
It is also very difficult to measure - for my part I'm happy for every
MB saved when downloading updates at home, because it directly
translates into waiting time. At work I don't have a bandwidth problem,
so it's way less of an issue there.

But I don't see anywhere how much the potential is - iirc correctly it
sometimes saves hundreds of MBs, which translates into something like
10-20 Minutes saved time.

Even though it's an after-the-fact information I'm still happy it doing
its job. (Interestingly on the last update almost half of the md5 sums
mismatched for the drpms, which increased download size from 12.3MB to
14.0MB - but this seems to be a rare problem)

Personally I'd like to stay on regular Fedora Workstation / Fedora
Server - I'd probably decide to take increased download times instead of
switching distros/editions if drpm gets removed.

All the best,
Astra