On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 17:19 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > /*Richard Hughes*/ wrote on Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:24:10 +0100: > > On 20 July 2017 at 04:10, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > > > It's even required. There is no support for unbundling anything beyond the > > > runtime at all, nor can runtimes share files without duplicating them. > > > > Sure they can. If you install the KDE runtime and the GNOME runtime, > > these are both built upon the Freedesktop runtime and share a huge > > number of files. Any duplicate files get deduplicated on disk -- you > > don't even download the duplicates when you update either or both of > > them. > > As Fedora is going to use (IIRC) Flatpack's in OCI format rather than > ostree, does it also work with OCI images? Both deduplication on disk, > and also delta-downloads?
Good question! Deduplication on disk works because Flatpak will unpack the downloaded OCI image into the local OSTree repository. Delta-downloads do not work, however. Every time a flatpak or runtime is updated, the whole flatpak or runtime needs to be downloaded. For this reason, it may be interesting to, once everything is built, explode the OCI Images into a OSTree repository for download. (If we do things right, we could even get delta-downloads for server containers as well...) The issue with this is that nobody has yet figured out how to handle OSTree repositories within the Fedora mirror infrastructure. While OSTree repositories can be mirrored efficiently, they can't be mirrored efficiently by rsync. But if we figure that one out.. in any case, this is a separate step that can be done once we get the basics of building flatpaks working. Owen _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
