different delivery formats

[Alan Pevec]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> I have a hard time accepting the argument that cloud disk images would
> be too big for mirrors. We're talking 100-200 MB per disk image typical.
> Even if we provided 3 formats, in two architectures we'd almost certainly
> be less than 1 GB in total size.
>
> Now look at Fedora 16 updates directory - 12 GB for x86_64, 12 GB for
> i386, and 9 GB for SRPMs.  So that's 33 GB of RPMs for Updates alone.
> Now the base release was another 73 GB. So for just RPMs, for 1 release
> of Fedora we're talking 100 GB.
>
> Our cloud images would be a mere 1% of the total Fedora size mirrors
> have to carry per release.

Do we care update updates i.e. update the image every time any package
inside gets updated ?
By looking at timestamps, Ubuntu's images[1] seem to be updated rather
frequently.

Alan

[1] http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/oneiric/