Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 03:48:06PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I was asked to weigh in on https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7215 as a
> priority. Last time we talked about this we didn't really get anywhere...
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/JYKVELSBJQMEK6KEFXG354ZDZDDX4C5G/#RLEUYSWOUVUS53YAP7WQQNN7HNEBIC4E
> 
> ... and that ticket hasn't moved, because fixing it isn't trivial.

Yeah. ;( 

I fear the only way to fix it is to get pungi to merge entire repos, and
I don't think thats anything that pungi wants to be on the hook for
doing. 

> What we're doing now — as has been the case for several years, already noted
> in the previous discussion — has very little end-user value. Also as noted
> in that thread (as in the ticket)... that's unfortunate, because it did
> bring some real benefits (and could possibly do even more.)
> 
> But, I think it's time to move on. We have ostree and various
> container-delta approaches. We should focus on those — and give DeltaRPMs a
> sad, fond farewell.

yeah, I agree. 

kevin

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