dnf?

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Mon Feb 17 14:05:08 UTC 2014


On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:23:30 -0500 "Garry T. Williams"
<gtwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It does now, but it's disabled by default. To enable, add
> > "deltarpm=true" to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. (See the dnf.conf man page.)
> 
> And, unlike yum, it does the rpm rebuild from drpm overlapped with the
> downloads.  Nice:
> 
>     Total download size: 122 M
>     Is this ok [y/N]: y

Thanks! A nice feature would be if it mentioned the delta size before
the question. If a person is with limited bandwidth, then (s)he can
decide whether (s)he should download now or later. This is also a
shortcoming of yum which somewhat diminishes the value of the deltas.

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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