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[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 04/09/2013 01:36 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> I am curious to know why anyone would not want to use the deltarpms? It
> works well and I am always looking for ways to save bandwidth, the
> smaller the files I download the better.

Because on some of my older machines, it takes *way* longer to expand
the drpms and create the rpms than it does to just download the rpms.

What should be a 1 minute download can turn into a 15 second download
and a 5-6 minute delta-expansion.

> Bob
> 


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