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

Pat Riehecky

riehecky at fnal.gov
Tue Jun 4 16:01:55 UTC 2019



On 6/4/19 10:44 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 6/4/19 10:18 AM, Pat Riehecky 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.
>>
>> Pat
>>
> Believe it or not .. that is the only time we don't currently do them :)
>
> Because it adds a bunch of size to the everything.iso
>

I'll confess I did notice they weren't there.

ISO bloat is a real concern!  These days the boot.iso is larger than my 
first linux installation.... and it had Gnome and KDE installed..

>
>> On 6/4/19 9:55 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> We are having issues with drpms on CentOS-6 i386 and x86_64 and on
>>> CentOS-7 x86_64.
>>>
>>> The technical issues sometimes cause us to have to rebuild all drpms
>>> over again .. and the time involved is very large.  Also storing the
>>> drpms and moving them around takes up a lot of space and bandwidth.
>>>
>>> We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and
>>> CentOS-7 repositories.
>>>
>>> But before we do , we would like a discussion on these lists to ensure
>>> this is not going to cause people major issues.
>>>
>>> So, begin the discussion, and we will address this again in about a
>>> month.  And we'll see where it leads.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Johnny Hughes
>>>
>> -- 
>> Pat Riehecky
>
>
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Pat Riehecky

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