[ATrpms-devel] are your repositories deltarpm compatible?

[Valent Turkovic]

On 4/12/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:56:33AM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > I'm not aware if freshrpms and atrpms fedora repositories are deltarpm
> > compatible, so please tell me :)
>
> I don't really know what it takes to be compatible. Do you mean
> whether deltarpms are produced? Then no, there are none.
>
> If you mean whether there is a base package set to have as a starting
> diff for creating deltarpms, then there isn't one either. But since it
> works with Fedora Extras (which also has no release/updates structure
> like Core) it should work in theory with ATrpms, too.
>
> > Please help support this project so it goes through beta testing and
> > gets full support in Fedora 7. This project needs you!
>
> Currently ATrpms undergoes a lot of infrastructure changes, so it is
> not something I can put very high on the TODO list (I have currently
> no idea how involved that might be on both administration and run time
> resources). Since it's coming with F7 the earliest maybe it's better
> to wait until then and ping again?
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>
>

I'm pinging at your request :)

I hope you got a lot of stuff done for Fedora 7 or you are near the
end of it. I'm just installing Fedora 7 test 4 on my other machine
while writing this mail.

I can't tell you all you need to do to make ATrpms compatible with
deltarpm and yum-presto plugin but I asked Jonathan Dieter
<jdieter at gmail.com>, the mainainer of yum-presto plugin to join this
lists so he can provide some much needed input.

I can only say that deltarpm is a great idea, and works great in practice.

It is maybe little less needed for repos like yours because people
mainly download from you, and update is secondary. But also when new
packages arrive then old packages will be updated.

You should think how to enable more and more people to use linux, and
great repos like yours is a really big benefit to fedora users.

There are millions of people with dialup and other slow connections on
our planet and updates for them are almost impossible. Or students
with laptops who can do some big installs when they are at ther
university but at home have also slow connection.

For all of them bandwidth is scarce and deltarpms is a great solution
to that problem so please do all you can with implementing it.

Thank you in advance.

Valent from Croatia.

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