On 11/14/2009 05:59 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 16:08 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi >> what's the current status of deltarpms and presto for centos? i'm just >> rebuild deltarpms, presto-utils, yum-presto packages from fedora for >> centos. is there any plan to add them to centos extras? what's the >> current state? i'm interested about not just using but generating >> deltarpms enabled repositories. imho it can save a lot's of bandwith for >> everybody (not to mention if presto will use google's courgette >> algorithm too). >> thanks in advance. >> > > FWIW, deltarpm is already in EPEL and I don't mind putting yum-presto > there as well (though both would probably be better served in CentOS > extras if we want CentOS to use them). > > There are currently test CentOS 5.4 repositories with deltarpms at > http://lesloueizeh.com/centos5 (though they get updated manually, which > means not too frequently). ok let make things more specific: deltarpm in epel 3.4-8.el5.1 while in fedora 3.5-0.4.20090913git is there any significant/relevant changes? when do you plan 3.5 release? i'd be useful to add yum-presto to epel too. at the same time which version required by yum-presto? in rhel/centos-5 yum-3.2.22 included, but i read somewhere (and i can't find now where) that at least yum-3.2.23 required. so what's the correct version? also a presto-utils would be useful in epel. rebuilding from fedora presto-utils-0.3.4-3 gives this error: -------------------------------------- byte-compiling /var/tmp/presto-utils-0.3.4-3.el5-root-lfarkas/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/presto-utils/deltarpmd.py to deltarpmd.pyc File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/presto-utils/deltarpmd.py", line 98 class Builder(): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -------------------------------------- while running: -------------------------------------- # createdeltarpms . drpms /usr/bin/python: module presto-utils.gendeltarpms not found -------------------------------------- gives the above error on centos-5.4 it's be useful to be at least a minimal manual how we can use these tools and and who we can generate deltarpms. > As for presto and courgette, I'll respond to that at: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512515 ok i respond there too. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"