On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 09:55:14AM -0500, 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 > Johnny: I don't have any particular problems with drpms, but I note that on my laptop, which is a really dog-slow dual-core Atom maxed out with a whopping 2Gig of RAM, the drpms seems to take forever to finish the rebuild. I suspect for me it'd be faster to just download the full RPM. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) -----------------------------