No deltarpms in Fedora 11

Posted May 4, 2009 16:25 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
Parent article: No deltarpms in Fedora 11

That doesn't necessarily mean it wont be available as an addon option for people who want to use it. yum-presto is available in F10 right now as an optional yum plugin that needs a weebit of manual configuration. It uses a 3rd party repository run by a community member to hold the deltarpms. You'd have to check for sure, but I would imagine this will continue to be the case for F11.

-jef

No deltarpms in Fedora 11

Posted May 4, 2009 16:30 UTC (Mon) by stickster (guest, #40146) [Link] (3 responses)

In a fresh installation of Rawhide (pre-Fedora 11), I didn't need to do any twiddling other than installing yum-presto to make the new deltarpms work.

No deltarpms in Fedora 11

Posted May 4, 2009 16:45 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (2 responses)

Yep, my point is... if its not enabled in Fedora build system for F-11 package building, the 3rd party repository approach is still a fallback option. Its really up to Jon Dieter and Angel Marin(and other mirror providers) to decide if they want to generate and host an external F-11 repository for deltarpms until the last Fedora updates system integration issues are ironed out and the switch can be flipped for official Fedora F11 deltas.

And to be clear having it enabled in rawhide is a HUGE benefit to testers. With the amount of churn in rawhide on a daily basis, I can't always keep up on my relatively slow residential connection. Deltas will help a lot. I'll make it easier to keep a dedicated rawhide system running at home. Instead of just virtual systems running on iron at work.

-jef

No deltarpms in Fedora 11

Posted May 4, 2009 20:44 UTC (Mon) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link] (1 responses)

Could deltarpm be enabled for koji repos too? rawhide mirrors are too slow :-)

No deltarpms in Fedora 11

Posted May 5, 2009 4:57 UTC (Tue) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

What on earth makes you use the koji repositories? Please don't do that. Use Rawhide repositories that are distributed to mirrors.