On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:55 +0000, Mike C wrote: > 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? > Uh, I said the Fedora *7* repos will never be presto-enabled. It will probably take a while for the buildsys team to work out how to fit the deltarpms with the rpms, so I don't think they'll feel it's worth the effort to get it working with Fedora 7. I agree 100% with everything else you said. Jonathan
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