deltarpms and newer kernels

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 23 January 2010 11:45 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 13:55 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> Dear fellow Fedora users,
>>
>> Deltarpms does help a little bit with many packages, but the kernel is
>> not one of them :(
>>
>> kernel-devel, kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, etc do work though, how
>> come kernel package is not the same?
>
> Basically, the kernel now has a 20MB initramfs included that is full of
> 0's.  When you install the kernel, it automatically generates an
> initramfs to replace this "dummy" one.  The reason the dummy one is in
> there is so that rpm can accurately calculate how much space it needs in
> boot.
>
> Deltarpm sees that the initramfs has changed and can't do a delta
> because it thinks the initramfs should be 0's.

Shouldn't that be classified as a bug with presto/deltarpm?

> Jonathan
>

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