On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:47 PM Marius Schwarz <fedoradev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 11.08.21 um 22:03 schrieb Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > > - there is also argument that people's connection bandwidth nowadays > > tends to be fast enough to make the package rebuilding actually > > slower than downloading the whole package (but that really vary between > > different installations) > > Since we now have Linux on smartphonesd, i heavily disagree with this > assumption and advocate to expand the drpm usage. How would you suggest to do that? >From what I can tell, drpms are most useful if you update your system daily (because deltas are only kept from one compose, and need storage space) - but unless you have thousands of packages installed, the few hundred KB - a few MB of download savings you get from drpms every day (at most) are drowned out by the size of the daily repository metadata download to even get those drpms. And if you update less often to reduce the frequency with which you need to download the big repo metadata, you might not get drpms for any updates at all. So I don't think that there's *any* scenario where using drpms results in a net reduction in MBs that need to be downloaded over time, because either - failed drpm reconstructions cause whole packages to be redownloaded anyway, - very few packages have drpms in every update push, - drpms are only kept for a very limited amount of time and limited number of packages, - savings from drpm usage is on the order of at most a few MB per update per day, and less if not updating every day, but - repository metadata downloads are reaching ~100MB / day, depending on how many repos are enabled. So ... am I missing something, or do drpms actually make things worse in *every* respect right now? - more MBs downloaded per update / per day in every scenario I can think of, - more computationally intensive to reconstruct locally, - needs compute time and storage space in Fedora build system, - makes compose process more complicated. Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
