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

Tue Jun 4 15:13:41 UTC 2019
Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com>

On 04/06/2019 15:55, 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.

I already exclude drpms from my local mirror as they're just a waste of
disk space for me.

Trevor