Jonathan Dieter <jdieter <at> gmail.com> writes: > I wouldn't worry about the possibility of the server going down. At some > point (hopefully), the Fedora 8 official repositories will be > presto-enabled and you will then be able to get your deltarpms directly > from them. The Fedora 7 official repositories will never be > presto-enabled (at least as far as I understand it). Can you say why the official repos will "never" be presto-enabled? For this to be adopted in a widespread manner it would need to have a reasonably widespread distribution of mirrors including fast ones available to people across the globe - otherwise if every machine running Fedora were to start pulling in rpm diff files it could in principle swamp the single server acting as a source. The idea sounds in principle like a good way of making large bandwidth savings. So what is the reason there is resistance to wider adoption for mirrors?
