Is there a problem with openoffice.org and delta RPMs? I've just done a yum update on F14 and all the OOo packages were downloaded in their entirety, whereas about 30 others came in as deltas. And it's not like OOo is small. And this is the second update in a week.
If it's going to carry on like this I'll exclude OOo from updates: I only use it once in a blue moon to examine documents in proprietary formats.
Ron
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:05:40 +0000 Ron Yorston wrote:
Is there a problem with openoffice.org and delta RPMs?
I suspect it is because it takes longer to construct the deltas than the time between OO releases :-). I've been updating quite frequently with a new f14, and it seems like there is a new OO build in the updates about every 2 or 3 days.
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 21:05 +0000, Ron Yorston wrote:
Is there a problem with openoffice.org and delta RPMs? I've just done a yum update on F14 and all the OOo packages were downloaded in their entirety, whereas about 30 others came in as deltas. And it's not like OOo is small. And this is the second update in a week.
If it's going to carry on like this I'll exclude OOo from updates: I only use it once in a blue moon to examine documents in proprietary formats.
There's a bug in the push scripts where it only generates deltas against GA and not updates. So if you downgrade to GA OOo and then update you'd get deltas. Obviously *not* a good solution.
We thought we'd fixed the bug, but obviously have missed something. We're investigating now.
Jonathan
Jonathan Dieter wrote:
There's a bug in the push scripts where it only generates deltas against GA and not updates. So if you downgrade to GA OOo and then update you'd get deltas. Obviously *not* a good solution.
We thought we'd fixed the bug, but obviously have missed something. We're investigating now.
I've just installed another update to OOo and it still downloaded everything, not deltas. OOo is now excluded from update in my yum.conf.
If this can't be fixed the maintainer should be a lot more cautious about pushing out updates to OOo. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that 100MB of updates about once a week is unacceptable. Think of the bandwidth.
Ron
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