[CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

Nothing against removing drpms. Nuke them.

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "johnny" <johnny at centos.org>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, 25 March, 2019 12:32:33
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

> On 3/25/19 6:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 3/23/19 9:19 AM, Bez Thomas wrote:
>>>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 9:52 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Was just doing a (very) belated update on a 7.5 system and ran into
>>>> this set of errors:
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Some delta RPMs failed to download or rebuild. Retrying..
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> so, anybody know why we're getting the 416 error from yum but not from
>>>> firefox?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Fred,
>>>
>>> Ran into this yesterday. It seems to be a delta rpm problem.
>>> Firefox is working because it’s downloading the whole rpm, avoiding the issue.
>>>
>>> setting
>>> deltarpm=0
>>> in /etc/yum.conf is an equivalent workaround, and fixed the issue for me.
>>>
>>> I’d appreciate someone who knows more about how delta rpms work weighing in on
>>> what the actual issue is.
>>>
>> 
>> Not sure what happened with the drpms, but I will regenerate all the
>> polkit drpms with the upcoming ghostscript release later this morning.
>> 
>> I added drpm tests to our pre-release CI tests as well.
>> 
> 
> This is not the first time we have had issues with drpms in the update tree.
> 
> Would anyone be opposed to taking away deltarpms from the repositories?
> 
> They take up lots of space and they have cause multiple issues in the past.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
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