On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover justin.conover@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any current work on yum-presto, deltarpm or some other method of getting the downloads for updates to be smaller and quicker?
IIRC The work on the client side was done, but it lacked the necessary bits on the infrastructure side to make it happen by default for all packages.
You may want to search in fedora-devel archives for more info
Can you compress rpm's to make the the downloads faster?
rpms _are_ compressed; we also had arguments about using alternate (possibly more efficient) compression algorithms but the outcome was it is not worth the trouble.
Is deltarpm's the solution?
I think so
Has anyone talked to all the fedora mirrors to have a deltarpm repository?
That's not the problem. The problem is that deltarpm info has to be prepared somewhere during the rpm build phase, so it will be available for all mirrors to pick up. IIRC the "somewhere" is in mock but please double check with fedora-devel archives.