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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/4/19 10:25 AM, Jeff Sheltren
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:18 AM Pat Riehecky <<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I'd love to see drpms for things
like going from 7.5.1804 to 7.6.1810 (or the next set of
versions) in theory these should only need maintenance
with the actual release and might help with folks making
the upgrade. I can see this having a positive impact at
release time for folks and let people who've got old media
make a faster jump.<br>
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<div>I'm curious why are you in favor of drpms in that
specific case? In my experience, if you are on a fast
network and/or have a local mirror, drpm updates are going
to be slower than regular package updates. And would the CR
repo address whatever your concern is about point release
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My general thoughts/use case are really driving by seeing this as a
compromise proposal. For folks who are super pro-delta this would
be a place where they are at. For folks that are anti-delta the
repos most folks use would not have them. The maintenance would be
low as they would be a one shot. But the positives could be high as
the updates between 7.5 and 7.6 are a lot of packages. This is
probably the single biggest batch of updates at a time so I think it
could satisfy each side a bit.<br>
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I think the CR repo is a slightly different creature. If it did
continue to publish drpms, I'd want to re-use those for the final
release. But it is targeted at folks who've been applying updates
so there might be some pressure to retain the current behavior.<br>
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Perhaps my biggest sell is if you've got a 7.5 install DVD and just
use those rpms, with the drpms for 7.6 Base OS you get to reuse the
media with a reduced download.<br>
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I'm not sure if this is a strong, weak, or purely academic
scenario. Just my initial guess at a least effort compromise.<br>
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Pat<br>
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Pat Riehecky
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.scientificlinux.org">www.scientificlinux.org</a></pre>
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