Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (5 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:26:17AM -0700, polk ghusegh wrote:
> I see that to keep up to date with factory I am required to download >1GB on 
> each new sync.  I pay for bandwidth so I wanted to create some delta rpms on 
> a weekly basis on a server I have access to which has no bandwidth 
> restrictions (which I could sync to factory).  I then planned to update my 
> system from that deltarpm server on a weekly basis for, I would guess, a few 
> 100 MBs at most.
>
> My problem is that for example 
>
> makedeltarpm -vv  mozilla-xulrunner181-1.8.1.12-4.x86_64.rpm 
> mozilla-xulrunner190-1.8.99.5-2.x86_64.rpm mozilla-xulrunner.delta
>
> yields a delta with around the same size as the rpms.  This is true for all 
> those I tried, am I misusing the makedeltarpm program or is this expected, or 
> is this the result of the transition to lzma compression for factory rpms?
>
> I am running  from the 11.0 alpha3 64bit CD with some packages updated to 
> factory (eg, zypper, yast), deltarpm = 3.4

The reason is that we switch the RPM payload format between 10.3 and 11.0 and 
you might see a
fallout of this now.

Ciao, Marcus
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