Re: Why Delta RPM is not available for firefox and there is no firefox-esr in the Fedora repository?

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On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > We have delta RPMs for going from GA release packages to current
> > updates and from last update to current update. Doing deltas from all
> > previous updates to all future updates would become a crazy out of
> > control matrix very quickly. Generating deltarpms is already a
> > *gigantic* use of computing resources in the project, and extending
> > that just isn't reasonable unless you have a huge hardware donation up
> > your sleeve....
> There is a bit of a problem with that, though, and packages that
> iterate quickly. 52.0-6 went stable on 2017-03-24. 52.0-7 went stable
> on 2017-03-30. 52.0.2-2 went stable on 2017-04-05. There isn't a week
> between any of those; given that (IIRC) GNOME is designed to notify
> users of updates only once a week, it's quite easy to *not* be going
> from 'latest minus 1' to 'latest' in this kind of scenario.

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not sure of a really good solution for this
other than ostree-based flatpaks — and that has its own challenges.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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