[CentOS-devel] Delta RPMs (drpms) for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:18 AM Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote:

> I'd love to see drpms for things like going from 7.5.1804 to 7.6.1810 (or
> the next set of versions) in theory these should only need maintenance with
> the actual release and might help with folks making the upgrade.  I can see
> this having a positive impact at release time for folks and let people
> who've got old media make a faster jump.
>
>
I'm curious why are you in favor of drpms in that specific case? In my
experience, if you are on a fast network and/or have a local mirror, drpm
updates are going to be slower than regular package updates. And would the
CR repo address whatever your concern is about point release updates?

-Jeff
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190604/9de10515/attachment.html>