On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:27:32PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > We don't generate deltas for packages with a size of >= 100MB .... > which kind of makes it useless for this case but it seems that delta > generation is to expensive to do for such large packages on the re-eng > boxes.
It's because the program that generates the delta RPMs reads the whole RPMs into memory, according to: http://lwn.net/Articles/329484/ Anyone know if there's a genuine reason why it does it, or if it's just a Simple Matter Of Programming to fix it? (And can point us to the actual bit of code that could be fixed ...) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
