On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 11:16 -0500, Zdenek Pavlas wrote: > > Somewhat related ... how hard is it to add the features: > > > > 1. Given a dir of .rpms (not installed), download the new .drpms to > > get new .rpms (basically the reposync case)? > > This should not be difficult to implement in Yum, basically just > extend the installed() check, and add another variant of applydeltarpm > invocation. > > If $repodir/Packages/ is used to look old RPMs up, > maybe reposync would require no patches at all..
Cool. > > 2. Have "downgrade" use drpms to go backwards? > > Should be a one-line "po.state != TS_UPDATE" patch, I assume.. > But we don't have downgrade deltas now.. and F17 prestodelta.xml > is about 5MB, doubling or tripling that.. would be noticeable. Fair enough. > Downgrades are IMO much less common than upgrades. Yeh, it would probably a pretty bad sign if that was not true :). _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
