F14 drpm needed for updates?

[Robert Moskowitz]

Ah NOW it makes sense.....

On 01/24/2011 12:49 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:38:40 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com>  wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of the presto plugin?  Other than trying to load
>> drpms?
> Just that. When that plugin is loaded, yum will look for and use drpms.
>
> from 'yum info yum-presto'
>
> Description : Yum-presto is a plugin for yum that looks for deltarpms rather than rpms
>              : whenever they are available.  This has the potential of saving a lot of
>              : bandwidth when downloading updates.
>              :
>              : A Deltarpm is the difference between two rpms.  If you already have foo-1.0
>              : installed and foo-1.1 is available, yum-presto will download the deltarpm
>              : for foo-1.0 =>  1.1 rather than the full foo-1.1 rpm, and then build the full
>              : foo-1.1 package from your installed foo-1.0 and the downloaded deltarpm.
>
> kevin