Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 08:49 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > To be blunt, I would have never done Zchunk metadata if it was going > to be used as a tool to kill DeltaRPMs. I firmly believe we need both > to have a comprehensive offering that accommodates the needs of > Fedora users across the world.

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 08:01:04PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 05. 01. 21 v 19:44 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > > On the next f33-updates push the entire process runs again. It never > > _updates_ existing repos, it always creates them. > > Ahh. So this all worked when we run the the process

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 05. 01. 21 v 19:44 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > On the next f33-updates push the entire process runs again. It never > _updates_ existing repos, it always creates them. Ahh. So this all worked when we run the the process once per week. But because we run it every day now, the deltas are minimal.

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 05. 01. 21 v 15:31 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > Yet another reason why popcon would be useful. https://github.com/xsuchy/popcon-for-fedora-old Feel free to take it :) -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Associate Manager ABRT/Copr, #brno, #fedora-buildsys

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 09:49:59AM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 05. 01. 21 v 0:29 Matthew Miller napsal(a): > > So, the first thing we need to do to fix this is move deltarpm creation out > > of the updates process. > > Right. > > > Kevin Fenzi tells me this would mean we'd need a > >

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Daniel Mach
Dne 05. 01. 21 v 0:50 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 06:29:13PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:21:15PM +, Matthew Almond via devel wrote: There's been a lot of interesting talk about the state and future of drpm. I'd like to propose we continue

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:46 PM Florian Weimer wrote: > The metadata would also be much larger, and so would be the battery > usage to recompress the payload. 8-( And while the bandwidth reduction has value, cpu and wallclock time to rebuild the rpm is substantially increased for low end devices

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Miller: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:30:10AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any >> > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. >> >> Is it really saving bandwidth, though? The reported

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:30:10AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any > > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. > > Is it really saving bandwidth, though? The reported savings are > generally very

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 03:50, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 05. 01. 21 v 0:29 Matthew Miller napsal(a): > > So, the first thing we need to do to fix this is move deltarpm creation > out > > of the updates process. > > Right. > > > Kevin Fenzi tells me this would mean we'd need a > > separate delta

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread David Kaufmann
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 06:29:13PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. But that's > definitely plan B. We can point people who are in low-bandwidth situations >

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > we aren't making very many, which makes them even less useful. Plus, we're > only making them between updates and for packages where those updates are > frequent, that means you need to keep on top of things, which may be best > practice but is most difficult for low-bandwidth users who

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 08:49:20AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:34 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > Now speaking of deltas - really delta implementations are going to benefit > > from a stronger "cadence" to releases, exactly much like what we do for > > CoreOS (but not

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:34 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 6:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any > > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. But that's > > definitely plan

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 6:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. But that's > definitely plan B. We can point people who are in low-bandwidth situations > at

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Rajeesh K V
> Is it really saving bandwidth, though? The reported savings are > generally very small for me. Downloading the metadata costs something > as well. In F33, mostly so. I generally keep up to date (update once a week), but available deltarpms have been lesser compared to earlier versions. I used

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Miller: > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off. Is it really saving bandwidth, though? The reported savings are generally very small for me. Downloading the metadata costs

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 05. 01. 21 v 0:29 Matthew Miller napsal(a): > So, the first thing we need to do to fix this is move deltarpm creation out > of the updates process. Right. > Kevin Fenzi tells me this would mean we'd need a > separate delta RPMs repo, Why? You can do that in the same repo. You just need

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 06:29:13PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:21:15PM +, Matthew Almond via devel wrote: > > There's been a lot of interesting talk about the state and future of > > drpm. I'd like to propose we continue the conversation about that with > > a

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:21:15PM +, Matthew Almond via devel wrote: > There's been a lot of interesting talk about the state and future of > drpm. I'd like to propose we continue the conversation about that with > a different subject line :) Okay, fair. I have a proposal. Right now, the