delta rpms - can we turn them off

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 17:23:04 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:18:15 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I do not think that would work, no.

Why?


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