On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:20 AM Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > 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 They add unnecessary bulk to local mirrors, and especially to the repodata which *cannot* be optimized down without reducing content on the mirrors. I've never liked this unnecessary duplication of data.