--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: deltarpms and newer kernels
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2:16 PM
> On Saturday 23 January 2010 21:55:21
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Deltarpms does help a little bit with many packages,
> but the kernel is not
> > one of them :(
> >
> > kernel-devel, kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, etc do
> work though, how come
> > kernel package is not the same?
>
> Not sure if I understand it correctly, but anyway... The
> kernel is not being
> updated, but rather installed concurrently with other
> kernels. So you cannot
> create a delta rpm for it, since there is a completely new
> rpm coming with
> each kernel. If kernel was supposed to be *updated* then
> maybe you could
> create a delta, but if you want to *install* it (from
> scratch, as is done in
> Fedora), then delta will not help.
This is where the OS's differ in their approach to kernel updating.
>
> And if you want to have multiple kernels available
> simultaneously (in contrast
> to SuSE), you need to *install* each of them, not update
> from one to another.
I wonder how OpenSUSE does this/did this, but there you don't download a new kernel, you download the delta rpm and magically the new kernel is created. Fedora *apparently does not have this*, but it is OK, I was just wondering why it does not happen here like in OpenSUSE?
>
> As for the presto and delta rpms, it typically saves 60-90%
> of my bandwidth
> with each update, and works flawlessly. Developers did a
> fantastic job! :-)
Can't disagree with this :)
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
>
Best Regards.
Antonio
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