[CentOS-devel] deltarpm and presto for centos

Sun Nov 15 22:25:51 UTC 2009
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at gmail.com>

On 11/15/2009 10:23 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 11/15/2009 08:28 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 19:30 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> it's be useful to be at least a minimal manual how we can use these
>>> tools and and who we can generate deltarpms.
>>
>> Fedora is using createrepo, not presto-utils to generate their
>> deltarpms.  Presto-utils should be deprecated (or at least, mainly used
>> for pruning out old drpms, etc).
> 
> but rhel/centos has very old createrepo, so we'd have to update
> createrepo, but it's against centos policy to update packages which is
> in the upstream distro;-(

and i find createrepo need yum-3.2.23 for delta support so that's
another problem:-(

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