yum-presto not on by default

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, drago01 wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, drago01 wrote:
>>
>>> Does not matter which compression algorithm we use creating a
>>> compressed rpm just to uncompressed it again shortly after that is a
>>> waste of cycles/power/time.
>>
>>> As for the GPG signature ... can't the drpm itself be signed?
>>
>> We'd need to do that signing which would take, umm, forever.
>
> What? You mean at compose time? (Signing on the client side would not
> make much sense)

I mean on the server/repo side. The steps we'd need to do for a full 
release would be:

1. compose tree
2. sign pkgs in tree
3. make deltarpms of pkgs vs older tree
4. sign deltarpms
5. generate repository metadata

that would take a long time.

-sv