delta rpms - can we turn them off

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at lesbg.com
Wed Jul 2 14:58:35 UTC 2014


This has already happened once before a few years back.  IIRC, we 
updated xz on the builder to match the one in Fedora, but our users had 
broken deltarpms until they got the updated xz.

Jonathan

On 07/02/2014 07:46 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Doesn't the current process assume that xz always produces the same
> output?
>
> What would happen if a newer version of xz/lzma comes out which (for
> example) produces better compressed output while still remaining
> compatible with the file format and older decompression tools?
>
> Rich.
>



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