delta rpms - can we turn them off

[drago01]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 07:13 PM, Kevin Fenzi 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.
>
>
> The signature is on the RPM header, not the payload.  The RPM header only
> lists digests of individual files (after decompression).
>
> So this shouldn't make a difference.

OK so there is no reason not to do it really.