On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:06 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Hi - > > Is yum-presto known to work on arm? Today I changed our repo to use > deltarpms and tested it out. I noticed... > > 1) On a package where I know the bulk of the unpacked data is some fonts > inside an ELF executable that didn't change, the compression result > was... not good > > Old RPM: 25424385 txtr-reader-0.1-417.fc11.armv5tel.rpm > New RPM: 25465487 txtr-reader-0.1-420.fc11.armv5tel.rpm > Delta RPM: 25465402 txtr-reader-0.1-417.fc11_0.1-420.fc11.armv5tel.drpm > > So it saved me 85 bytes from 25MByte :-) > > The actual procedure here is the createrepo is run on an x86_64 box over > these arm packages and then rsync'd on a server. > > 2) Using deltarpms fails <snip> > > Any advice welcomed, it would be great to reduce this 25MByte package > down since the vast bulk of it is exactly the same each time :-) > > -Andy > If you can get me ssh access to an arm machine, I'll look into both of these problems. Please also open a bug against deltarpm (otherwise, I'll totally forget about this). Jonathan
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