[CentOS-devel] Delta RPMs disabled by default?

Tue Jul 8 10:28:08 UTC 2014
Mustafa Muhammad <mustafaa.alhamdaani at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Trevor Hemsley
<trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 08/07/14 11:06, Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I installed CentOS 7 today, congratulations, and thank you for this
>> fast release.
>> I found a problem (or a design decision?), deltarpm is not installed
>> by default (minimal install), when I ran "yum distro-sync" I got:
>> Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
>> deltarpm is important to me (and anybody with limited bandwidth), so
>> is this intended or simply a bug?
>>
>> Regards
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>
> You did a minimal install so the package selection you got is, err,
> minimal. You can enable delta rpms by installing the binary it needs and
> told you about. Running
>
> yum provides '*/applydeltarpm'
>
> will show you the package name.
>
> Trevor
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I know, I already did, but isn't it supposed to be included in the
"minimal installation", it is only "82 k" and it was in CentOS 6
Minimal, please consider adding it, smaller update size makes huge
difference in bandwidth (for the users and mirrors).