DeltaRPM works great on Fedora Core 6 (yum presto plugin)

[Michael Schroeder]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:09:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> That probably does explain the speed difference. Looks like we are 
> trading in disk space for better performance. Why was bzip2 compression 
> chosen in SUSE?

To squeeze a couple of packages more on the CDs.

> How much disk space do you save on disk by using bzip2?

I think about 10%. But in retrospect it IMHO was a bad decission,
bzip2 is much to slow. I hope things will be better if we switch
to new compression schemes like 7zip.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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