OOo and delta RPM

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at lesbg.com
Thu Nov 25 05:46:28 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 21:05 +0000, Ron Yorston wrote:
> Is there a problem with openoffice.org and delta RPMs?  I've just
> done a yum update on F14 and all the OOo packages were downloaded in
> their entirety, whereas about 30 others came in as deltas.  And it's
> not like OOo is small.  And this is the second update in a week.
> 
> If it's going to carry on like this I'll exclude OOo from updates:
> I only use it once in a blue moon to examine documents in proprietary
> formats.

There's a bug in the push scripts where it only generates deltas against
GA and not updates.  So if you downgrade to GA OOo and then update you'd
get deltas.  Obviously *not* a good solution.

We thought we'd fixed the bug, but obviously have missed something.
We're investigating now.

Jonathan
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