Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 18:47 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:11 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:52 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > If you want to optimize SRPM download sizes, why not just supply a > > separate trimmed-down tarball containing only the kernel module bits in > > the kernel module SRPM (and include comments in the specfile how it was > > created from the upstream dist tarball, or include a script to do it in > > the source rpm)? And if you want, another similar trimmed one in the > > userland SRPM containing only the non-kernel-module parts. > Actually, I fail to see where this approach _really_ reduces bandwidth > requirements. Sourcecode for the kernel-module parts livna ati-fglrx package: around 4,5 MByte for x86 and x86_64 together. Whole SRPM (includes x86_64 and x86): 22 MByte. > Users who are rebuilding the rpms, should learn to download the srpm > once. Every two month when ati releases a new driver. > Afterwards, they'll have it "on disk" and don't have to > re-download it again. Sure. > I would expect the high rate of downloads of kernel-module-*src.rpms you > might be seeing at Livna to originate from delays between kernel > releases in FC and kernel-module releases at Livna. People use those to build against rawhide, kernels from updates-testing and even self-compiled kernels (not possible with the scheme we currently discuss here for extras). If I broke something there I got bug-reports shortly after release... > [...] CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
