[fedora-arm] deltarpms

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Aug 23 16:51:47 UTC 2015



On 08/23/2015 12:45 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> I am doing my first Fedora22 install.  No problem building the SDcard and
>> getting through the install.  Then it was time to get current with dnf
>> update.
>>
>> Ouch!  All those rpms downloading as deltas and then needing to build the
>> rpms from them.
>>
>> Seems like I should have set deltarpm=false in dnf.conf?
>>
>> So many rpms that have to have deltas built when I have adequate bandwidth.
>> I will do this for the NEXT time, but.
>>
>> It seems to me that for armv7, the default should be deltarpm=false and
>> those with limited bandwidth can change it.  we are more limited by our
>> systems than our bandwidth.  Again my not so humble opinion.
> I happen to disagree and we don't want to differentiate from mainline here.
>

And in large measure I agree about not deviating from mainline when not 
necessary.

Perhaps a comment on this behaviour and options on:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F22/Installation

?




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