On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 16:35, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:27:32PM +0200, drago01 wrote: >> We don't generate deltas for packages with a size of >= 100MB .... >> which kind of makes it useless for this case but it seems that delta >> generation is to expensive to do for such large packages on the re-eng >> boxes. > > It's because the program that generates the delta RPMs reads the whole > RPMs into memory, according to: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/329484/ > > Anyone know if there's a genuine reason why it does it, or if it's > just a Simple Matter Of Programming to fix it? (And can point us to > the actual bit of code that could be fixed ...) There was in fact a request for volunteers about a month ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/136090.html -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
