Deltarpms for Rawhide?

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jonathan Dieter wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 07:52 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:24, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Are we no longer generating deltarpms in Rawhide?  Both the June 13
>>> and
>>> June 14 composes no longer have the drpms directory.
>>>
>>> Because of bandwidth issues, on our school's private mirror I normally
>>> rsync the drpms first, build the rpms, and then rsync everything.  I
>>> probably won't be able to mirror Rawhide if we're not generating
>>> deltarpms for it anymore.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>> --
>>
>> We are chasing a bug in the delta path that is making rawhide take
>> over 24 hours to compose.  For now, no deltas.
>
> Ok, that's great.  I was afraid it was a policy decision.  /me goes back
> to my quiet little corner.
>

I'm working on solving the problem. Concatenating unicode strings in 
python is a mere 6.9X slower than ascii strings. It's on my very short 
list to fix.

-sv