No more deltarpms by default

Andre Robatino robatino at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 17 11:49:17 UTC 2014


Roberto Ragusa <mail <at> robertoragusa.it> writes:

> Are compressed rpms completely impossible to diff efficiently by rsync?

In a word, yes. They're already compressed, so it's unlikely there would be
any matching blocks between old and new rpms for rsync to take advantage of.
(You can verify this by trying a local rsync between two different versions
of a large RPM.)




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