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

2019-06-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:06:42AM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and > > CentOS-7 repositories. > > > > I live on fast connections both at home and work and for me I see no > real advantage to delta R

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

2019-06-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and > CentOS-7 repositories. > I live on fast connections both at home and work and for me I see no real advantage to delta RPMs - I've not really measured it, but it seems like my systems spend more time reconstructing

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

2019-06-05 Thread Ian Mortimer
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 09:55 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and > CentOS-7 repositories. I maintain a local mirror for CentOS and we don't use delta rpms so won't mind if they're dropped. (From what I've seen with Fedora, the be

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

2019-06-05 Thread Mark Milhollan
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Johnny Hughes wrote: 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 Delta's are about conserving network bandwidth at the expense of local disk bandwidth, so I expect the greatest

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

2019-06-04 Thread anax
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

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

2019-06-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
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