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Deltarpms back in for Fedora 11

[Posted May 11, 2009 by jake]

The on again, off again status of deltarpms in Fedora 11 has changed again. As reported on Josh Boyer's blog, various technical problems have been dealt with and deltarpms will be available for Fedora 11. "Oh, yeah. That's right. What you see there is indeed deltarpms for the first Fedora 11 updates push. So Paul, you can un-edit your blog post now because we should be ready to go for Fedora 11 GA. We'll probably still have a few hiccups here and there, but the infrastructure is now in place."

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Posted May 11, 2009 17:38 UTC (Mon) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

It wasn't 'off again' ever, imo. It was 'no one told us there were more bits we needed to move around'. We thought, mistakenly, that since we had it working for use in rawhide that we were good to go.

But it was hardly 'off'.

In fact, I think the only people who seemed to think it was off was lwn.

Deltarpms back in for Fedora 11

Posted May 11, 2009 17:41 UTC (Mon) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> In fact, I think the only people who seemed to think it was off was lwn.

It would seem that Fedora project leader Paul Frields thought it was "off" in a blog posting, now updated:

"Josh tells me in a comment below that this is probably not going to make it to Fedora 11, due to some other technical constraints we hope to have solved by Fedora 12."

jake

What I don't get about Deltarpms

Posted May 12, 2009 21:22 UTC (Tue) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]

Why do they have to rebuild the RPM. That seems like a ugly slow hack to me. Why not train RPM to install the DRPMs over RPMs right away? It would be faster and more elegant.

What I don't get about Deltarpms

Posted May 13, 2009 12:55 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

We have to gpg-check the rpm to make sure the contents match up properly.
Now, we could do that in memory, theoretically, but it hasn't been done yet. One step at a time, unless, of course, you have patches you want to send.