delta rpms - can we turn them off

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 17:18:15 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:11:53 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That wasn't about "poor" as in slow vs. "great" as in fast but
>> bandwith capped vs. not.
>>
>> If building deltas are slow the solution is not to disable them but to
>> find out why there are slow and fix that. One thing for instance is
>> that it insists on generating the original rpm while creating an
>> uncompressed rpm would save a compress + uncompressed cycle during
>> updates (the former is a bit extensive for xz).
>
> I think It could avoid doing that if people didn't mind that it couldn't
> be gpg checked.

Well the delta files themselves could be signed no?


More information about the devel mailing list