On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:37 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's also been a long time since I've seen any benefit. > > Can anyone summarise quickly why delta RPMs don't work? It seems like > they "obviously" should be possible, because there must be a lot of > commonality in the content of adjacent RPM versions ... They don't work because we compose updates wrong. Instead of building on top of previous updates, we throw them away and rebuild from the latest. Since we don't merge previous composes into a new compose, we are missing too much stuff for DeltaRPMs to be continuously useful. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
