On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 09:55:14AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

We are having issues with drpms on CentOS-6 i386 and x86_64 and on CentOS-7 x86_64.

The technical issues sometimes cause us to have to rebuild all drpms over again .. and the time involved is very large.  Also storing the drpms and moving them around takes up a lot of space and bandwidth.

We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 repositories.

But before we do , we would like a discussion on these lists to ensure this is not going to cause people major issues.

So, begin the discussion, and we will address this again in about a month.  And we'll see where it leads.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

Johnny:

I don't have any particular problems with drpms, but I note that on my laptop, which is a really dog-slow dual-core Atom maxed out with a whopping 2Gig of RAM, the drpms seems to take forever to finish the rebuild. I suspect for me it'd be faster to just download the full RPM.

Fred

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Johnny Hughes wrote:

We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 repositories.

But before we do , we would like a discussion

Delta's are about conserving network bandwidth at the expense of local disk bandwidth, so I expect the greatest effect is for your mirror network. So far as I'm concerned they could disappear and I'd never really notice.

/mark

We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 repositories.

I live on fast connections both at home and work and for me I see no real advantage to delta RPMs - I've not really measured it, but it seems like my systems spend more time reconstructing the RPMs than they ever did downloading things. So it is of no consequence to *me* if they are done away with.

TBH I think the people you really need to hear from are those for whom delta RPMs are an distinct advantage - they are the ones who will be affected. So far I've only seen responses from people who don't mind if they are abandoned.

P.