[CentOS-devel] drpms directories taking a lot of space

Wed Jan 8 11:29:01 UTC 2014
Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net>

Hello Fabian and Johnny,

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:16:50AM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Well, Johnny modified the numbers of deltarpms created now (so up to 5
> drpms per package now) so the total size occupied by those drpms should
> be less than before (was verified yesterday, with last rsync between
> mirrors deleting quite some files)

Seems there are still way more delta-rpms out there and quite huge
"drpms"-subdirectories out there on the mirrors.

Looking at the drpms-Dir listed by size:
http://msync.centos.org/centos-6/6.5/updates/x86_64/drpms/?C=S;O=A
And comparing that to the list of packages:
http://msync.centos.org/centos-6/6.5/updates/x86_64/Packages/

E.g. firefox has 4 normal rpm-Packages with about 47MB out there,
those 4 rpm-Packages result in 18 drpm-packages with each 41MB.

This remains a huge burden for drpms...

best regards,

Florian La Roche