deltarpms and newer kernels

[Konstantin Svist]

On 01/23/2010 01:55 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow Fedora users,
>
> Deltarpms does help a little bit with many packages, but the kernel is not one of them :(
>
> kernel-devel, kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, etc do work though, how come kernel package is not the same?
>
> /*
> Package(s) data still to download: 19 M                                         
> */
> Otherwise, real savings and improvement would apply :), wonder how OpenSUSE handles this, one of my machines at school died and it had OpenSUSE and updates seemed fast, but they have only one kernel which I don't like, with Fedora we can keep more kernels :)  
>
>   

If you're managing a fairly large group of computers, it would be much
easier for you to just clone the repos or use a caching proxy for updates