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

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On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 10:40 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:18:23AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:48 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.)
> > > 
> > 
> > Our tooling has been broken for a long time and contributions to that
> > tooling is just not going to happen since nobody can run this stuff
> > outside of Fedora infrastructure. It's a sad state of affairs indeed.
> 
> It's not "broken" just because it doesn't do what you would like it to
> do. Please can we not disparage other peoples work?
> 
> The reason it behaves this way is because koji has no concept of 'newer
> version' or 'older version'. It has only when a valid build was tagged
> into a tag, and pungi operates on that with 'give me the latest tagged
> packages in these tags'. 
> 
> We could merge current repos into the newly created one from pungi, but
> it would be a vast amount of work. It would mean all repodata would need
> to be regenerated. That said, it could be done, but no one has had the
> cycles to work on it.

I'm guessing this would also make composes slower and less reliable?
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