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

Tue Jun 4 15:44:45 UTC 2019
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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



> 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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