No more deltarpms by default

Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet.org
Mon Oct 6 13:43:33 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:00:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The amount of time taken to rebuild rpms from delta rpms meant that
> they didn't seem to save anything for me.

It's not about saving *time*; it's about reducing the amount of data 
sent over the wire -- this is particularly important when you have a 
slow/congested (and/or metered) internet connection.  

Personally, I leave deltarpms on unless I have a local repo mirror.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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