yum-presto not on by default

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 23 14:58:23 UTC 2009



On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Till Maas wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
>
>> ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If
>> nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the
>> compression to something that works ... the minor savings in xz
>> compression isn't worth as much as delta's.
>
> I guess there won't be any deltarpms to update from F11 to F12, so
> afaics it would be enough to only switch back to gzip payload for
> everthing that is going into F12 updates(-testing). Is this true?
>
> Then we would still save space on the iso images and for the Everything
> Repository, but deltarpms would still be possible.

We'd need a mass rebuild to all pkgs in rawhide/f12-candidate to shake Xz 
out of the payload compression.

That's non-trivial.


-sv




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