Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>> On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>>> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote:
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>>>>>     As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for
>>>>> wesnoth-data due to it's size.
>>>>>            
>>>> Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>          
>>> Patches welcome.
>>>        
>> Part of it is lingering in bugzilla:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563866
>>
>> I am using a locally rebuilt (due to upstream refusing to provide one in
>> Fedora) patched createrepo as part of a 3rd party repo's infrastructure.
>>
>>      
> That doesn't actually help.  It doesn't address the base problem of how
> delta rpm does its work, by reading everything into ram
Correct, but it makes "running out of RAM" scalable. It allows you to 
extend the hard-coded limitations to the HW you are using and to the 
actual demands of your packages.