[CentOS-devel] Re: Presto / deltarpm

Sat Sep 1 18:02:41 UTC 2007
Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com>

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 18:34 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> > I apologize for starting a new thread, but I've just joined the list and
> > was therefore unable to reply to the original message.  I'm the Fedora
> > maintainer for both yum-presto and deltarpm, as well as being upstream
> > for yum-presto.
> 
> cool :)
> 
> > I would be very willing to package both yum-presto and deltarpm for
> > CentOS, and to offer some help with buildsys integration (which would be
> > the tricky part).
> 
> well, CentOS isnt doing this stuff as yet - what we need to do first is 
> establish exactly what needs doing, how it needs to be done, and what real 
> problems are likely to come up.
> 

If CentOS is to start building presto-enabled repositories, here's what
needs to be done:

   a. deltarpm & yum-presto added to CentOS repositories
   b. CentOS build system modified to generate deltarpms.

As for how to do "b", that depends on what CentOS is using for their
build system.  At Fedora, the plan is to have koji generate the
deltarpms, but I'm not sure if you're using koji.  If not, CentOS would
need to go down a separate route.

When it comes to problems, the plugin is designed to fall back to yum
downloading the full rpms if there are any.

Jonathan
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