Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 08.11.2014 um 20:21 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: [root@rawhide ~]# rm -rf /var/cache/dnf/* I do think you also flushed all the historical data on what packages were installed from what repositories no - that

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: the meta-data are fat look below The metadata are bulky, fairly monolithic databases. They cannot easily support incremental updates of the metadata because they are compressed, singular files storing data for all

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.11.2014 um 20:21 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: [root@rawhide ~]# rm -rf /var/cache/dnf/* I do think you also flushed all the historical data on what packages were installed from what repositories no - that would be rm -rf /var/lib/yum/* rm -rf /var/lib/dnf/* and yes i delete them

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo on f21 has metadata_expire=6h I was looking at dnf since the discussion is about dnf and the metadata right now for f21 updates is an empty repo with no packages in it f20 updates repo

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-07 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.11.2014 um 17:53 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo on f21 has metadata_expire=6h I was looking at dnf since the discussion is about dnf where do you see DNF using other than /etc/yum.repos.d/ DNF

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-06 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 08:16:30 -0700 Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:00 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: I am not convinced that being fast and download less are mutually exclusive when using deltas. So we should

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-11-06 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:56:40 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's a rough figure, from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-22 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 10/17/2014 05:52 AM, poma wrote: On 06.10.2014 16:46, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-22 Thread Johannes Lips
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change deserves a broader discussion

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2014 um 04:02 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 06:37 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: #!/usr/bin/bash basearch=`uname

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, 3) People who have a lot of hosts and high bandwidth, high speed local deployment requirements can, and do, set up an internal Fedora mirror with much lower bandwidth costs. Maybe mirrormanager can give a hint in case it directs yum/dnf to a onsite mirror? cheers, Gerd -- devel

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Fr, 2014-10-17 at 11:49 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it writes: Are compressed rpms completely impossible to diff efficiently by rsync? In a word, yes. They're already compressed, so it's unlikely there would be any matching blocks between old and

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2014 um 12:31 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann: On Fr, 2014-10-17 at 11:49 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it writes: Are compressed rpms completely impossible to diff efficiently by rsync? In a word, yes. They're already compressed, so it's unlikely there

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:52:00 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: It's a rough figure, from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/ (a useful local mirror). Since the number of

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 04:02 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 06:37 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM,

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 12:31 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann: On Fr, 2014-10-17 at 11:49 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it writes: Are compressed rpms completely impossible to diff efficiently

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2014 um 13:57 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 04:02 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 06:37 schrieb

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: . And the bandwidth saving is still badly overshadowed by the necessary repodata bandwith from almost every run of reposync in the model you've just

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Even then, though still means up to 60 MB * 15/month, Earlier you mentioned 50 MB. Now you claim 60 MB. Can you show where these figures are from? Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.10.2014 um 06:37 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: #!/usr/bin/bash basearch=`uname -i` releasever=`rpm -q --qf %{version}\n fedora-release` for g in `ls -1b /var/cache/yum` do if [ -d /var/cache/yum/$g/packages ]

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Even then, though still means up to 60 MB * 15/month, Earlier you mentioned 50 MB. Now you claim 60 MB. Can you show where these figures are from?

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 06:37 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: #!/usr/bin/bash basearch=`uname -i` releasever=`rpm -q --qf %{version}\n

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's a rough figure, from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/ That doesn't seem to be the right way to look at the numbers. In a local system, there are two different repositories enabled

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:52:00 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: It's a rough figure, from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/ (a useful local mirror). Since the number of packages there changes day to day, but are likely to increase

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: My comment was not meant to be argumentative, but rather tongue-in-cheek. However, I do believe when changing a default, it isn't about what is convenient for me. It's about what is best for the entire community and what are

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 07:00:19PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 3) People who have a lot of hosts and high bandwidth, high speed local deployment requirements can, and do, set up an internal Fedora mirror with much lower bandwidth costs. This reduces the tangible benefits of deltarpms

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 18, 2014 5:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: My comment was not meant to be argumentative, but rather tongue-in-cheek. However, I do believe when changing a default, it isn't about what is convenient

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.10.2014 um 02:19 schrieb Solomon Peachy: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 07:00:19PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 3) People who have a lot of hosts and high bandwidth, high speed local deployment requirements can, and do, set up an internal Fedora mirror with much lower bandwidth costs.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 02:19 schrieb Solomon Peachy: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 07:00:19PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 3) People who have a lot of hosts and high bandwidth, high speed local deployment requirements

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: . And the bandwidth saving is still badly overshadowed by the necessary repodata bandwith from almost every run of reposync in the model you've just described. 50 Megabytes, *every time* it runs unless the metadata for the repo

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 10/06/2014 07:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: oh no - don't tie all together for reasons which did not destory the world over years - it is a damned good design that the part dealing with rpm packages don't need to know anything aboutt delta rpms because the normal packages are created

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 10/06/2014 07:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the last discussions suggested that the result needs to be *identical* to the full RPM downloaded for not break signatures Bizarre design; the signature should protect the content (uncompressed), not the transport method (compressed). --

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.10.2014 um 10:49 schrieb Roberto Ragusa: On 10/06/2014 07:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: oh no - don't tie all together for reasons which did not destory the world over years - it is a damned good design that the part dealing with rpm packages don't need to know anything aboutt delta

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.10.2014 um 10:55 schrieb Roberto Ragusa: On 10/06/2014 07:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the last discussions suggested that the result needs to be *identical* to the full RPM downloaded for not break signatures Bizarre design; the signature should protect the content (uncompressed),

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Andre Robatino
Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it writes: Are compressed rpms completely impossible to diff efficiently by rsync? In a word, yes. They're already compressed, so it's unlikely there would be any matching blocks between old and new rpms for rsync to take advantage of. (You can verify this

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 05:09, Reindl Harald wrote: on a 56kbit modem you don't want to download the full RPMs and on a 150Mbit line the download will always be faster than rebuild the RPM Perhaps this has already been suggested, but why not ask a question during the installation of the OS? For

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread drago01
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Tom Rivers t...@impact-crater.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 05:09, Reindl Harald wrote: on a 56kbit modem you don't want to download the full RPMs and on a 150Mbit line the download will always be faster than rebuild the RPM Perhaps this has already been

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no sense and pushes it to the user. The os (i.e we) should handle that. In that case we should do both 1) have lower bandwith requirements (i.e use deltas) *and* 2) have fast installation of updates. Those two goals are not mutually

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: If the proper configuration can be determined automagically, then by all means just do it. My point is that users aren't too stupid to understand bandwidth/processor considerations. The configuration of how much bandwidth/processor

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no sense and pushes it to the user. The os (i.e we) should handle that. In that case we should do both 1) have lower bandwith requirements (i.e use deltas) *and* 2) have fast installation of updates.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread drago01
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no sense and pushes it to the user. The os (i.e we) should handle that. In that case we should do both 1) have lower

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread poma
On 06.10.2014 16:46, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 10:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Wile users might be able to handle such questions (I would avoid calling them stupid even otherwise) I didn't call them stupid - in fact I suggested just the opposite. Go back and read what I wrote. , it is contrary to the goals of the installer.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: I didn't call them stupid - in fact I suggested just the opposite. Go back and read what I wrote. I did. You said My point is that users aren't too stupid to understand bandwidth/processor considerations. I am just saying even if one

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/17/2014 05:07 PM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no sense and pushes it to the user. The os (i.e we) should handle that. In that

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Matthew Miller
Everyone: please remember the code of conduct here, and advance the conversation in a productive way or take it elsewhere. Thank you. -- Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Jon
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: [ . . . ] It would be nice to see if we can find ways to improve the performance of the deltarpm reconstruction instead. Much of the time is spent on compression/decompression tasks which *should* be massively

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Tom Rivers t...@impact-crater.com wrote: If the proper configuration can be determined automagically, then by all means just do it. My point is that users aren't too stupid to understand bandwidth/processor considerations. The configuration of how much

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/17/2014 06:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Everyone: please remember the code of conduct here, and advance the conversation in a productive way or take it elsewhere. Thank you. Well, then please explain, how you expect people to express fundamental disagreement with somebody's rationale,

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread drago01
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 05:07 PM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.10.2014 um 17:07 schrieb drago01: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it makes no sense and pushes it to the user. The os (i.e we) should handle that. In that

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 12:11, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I think you're setting up a false equivalency here. There is a difference between the requirements of say an XBOX or Playstation user and that of updating a Fedora system. If given the choice, most people will say Yes, I have a high speed

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 11:29, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: I didn't call them stupid - in fact I suggested just the opposite. Go back and read what I wrote. I did. You said My point is that users aren't too stupid to understand bandwidth/processor

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: If you deconstruct the sentence you quoted above, it boils down to the subject users and the predicate aren't. Therefore I said quite specifically that users ARE NOT too stupid to understand bandwidth/processor considerations. The

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread drago01
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.10.2014 um 17:07 schrieb drago01: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 10/17/2014 04:24 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:05, drago01 wrote: Because it

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.10.2014 um 19:45 schrieb drago01: 1) deltarpms - low bandwidth use but takes a while to apply the updates 2) no deltarpms - high bandwidth use but faster updates application. So now people suggest the user (or the distro) has to either choose 1) or 2) ... What I am suggesting is adding a

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 13:19, Rahul Sundaram wrote: For the last time, my point is that: smart and stupid is not determined by whether a user understands bandwidth/processor considerations. I completely understand that not comprehending all of the complexities of bandwidth/processor considerations

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: I would really like to know how you can equate that with my original point: Hey, maybe instead of throwing Presto under the bus.. We aren't though. Deltarpms is again enabled by default in Dnf a while back if you read the bug report.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/17/2014 14:24, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Deltarpms is again enabled by default in Dnf a while back if you read the bug report. Everything else has been an tangent, yes. I suppose I'm having trouble understanding that when you started this thread with: On 10/6/2014 04:41, Rahul Sundaram

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Tom Rivers wrote: I suppose I'm having trouble understanding that when you started this thread with:ble by default for many users. dnf should enable this configuration by default as well Yes, that was true when I posted it. As a result of this discussion,

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Tom Rivers t...@impact-crater.com wrote: My point was to say Linux users are usually more tech savvy than XBox and Playstation users. If they say they have a high speed connection and they don't and that decision ends up costing them more money in ISP costs,

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ian Malone wrote: I have an internet flatrate at 150 mbs, and downloading the full rpms is ALOT faster than the the work that the delta rpms requires. Wow. Good to see normal users are taken into account. I have a normal Austrian broadband connection, and it is still much faster to just

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: And parallelization (as others in the thread have suggested) will not help at all on the single-core machine I'm typing this on. Single-Core? Really Kevin? Even the One Laptop Per Child machines are dual-core. ;-)

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
Gerald B. Cox composed on 2014-10-16 12:52 (UTC-0700): Kevin Kofler wrote: And parallelization (as others in the thread have suggested) will not help at all on the single-core machine I'm typing this on. Single-Core? Really Kevin? Even the One Laptop Per Child machines are dual-core.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-16 Thread Gerald B. Cox
My comment was not meant to be argumentative, but rather tongue-in-cheek. However, I do believe when changing a default, it isn't about what is convenient for me. It's about what is best for the entire community and what are the real world ramifications. I'm not buying the let's change the

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/17/2014 05:40 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: My comment was not meant to be argumentative, but rather tongue-in-cheek. However, I do believe when changing a default, it isn't about what is convenient for me. It's about what is best for the entire community and what are the real world

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-08 Thread Mustafa Muhammad
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Jonathan Dieter jdie...@lesbg.com wrote: On 10/06/2014 08:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.10.2014 um 19:45 schrieb Florian Festi: The way of getting around all this unnecessary computation is establishing trust via the deltarpm itself and giving up the idea

No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change deserves a broader discussion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148208 Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! 2014-10-06 12:41 GMT+04:00 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this At last! -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov. -- devel mailing list

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change deserves a broader discussion

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:41:07AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change deserves a broader discussion

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.10.2014 um 13:00 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:41:07AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change deserves a broader

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think this change

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:00:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: The amount of time taken to rebuild rpms from delta rpms meant that they didn't seem to save anything for me. It's not about saving *time*; it's about reducing the amount of data sent over the wire -- this is particularly

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, It would be nice to see if we can find ways to improve the performance of the deltarpm reconstruction instead. Much of the time is spent on compression/decompression tasks which *should* be massively parallel s/massively parallel/not done at all/ ... but we had this discussion

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, It would be nice to see if we can find ways to improve the performance of the deltarpm reconstruction instead. Much of the time is spent on compression/decompression tasks which *should* be massively parallel

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi One of the long standing features that were enabled by

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:00 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: I am not convinced that being fast and download less are mutually exclusive when using deltas. So we should keep deltas *and* make them faster. Exactly. The fact that some users have more bandwidth means exactly what? Most

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:07:33 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: The deltarpms were meant to serve two purposes 1) (lesser) Address the needs of users in developing countries (where Fedora is fairly popular) and bandwidth concerns are very considerable. Many of these users

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Jonathan Dieter
FWIW, I wrote and maintained yum-presto before it was integrated into yum. I've commented inline: On 10/06/2014 06:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:07:33 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: The deltarpms were meant to serve two purposes 1) (lesser) Address

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Florian Festi
On 10/06/2014 05:16 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: The fact that some users have more bandwidth means exactly what? Most people also have faster processors and disks now. It is more efficient from a networking perspective to minimize unnecessary traffic and use local processing. That was behind

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Bandwidth may be growing faster, but it started way behind processing power. It hasn't caught up. The current definition from the FCC for broadband is 4Mb. They are working to increase it, but that hasn't happened. Carriers are looking for ways to throttle traffic. Your assumption that

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Lukas Zapletal
because it needs to build the complete xz-compressed RPM there was a discussion here not that long ago Is the XZ the only option for RPMs now? Can't it do it uncompressed? Or at least gzip -1. Or Rich can add new feature to his ultra-blazing-fast multi-core XZ decompressor. Compression :-) --

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.10.2014 um 19:18 schrieb Lukas Zapletal: because it needs to build the complete xz-compressed RPM there was a discussion here not that long ago Is the XZ the only option for RPMs now? Can't it do it uncompressed? Or at least gzip -1. Or Rich can add new feature to his

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Florian Festi ffe...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/06/2014 05:16 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: The fact that some users have more bandwidth means exactly what? Most people also have faster processors and disks now. It is more efficient from a networking perspective to

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Lukas Zapletal
Ok I think the above thread explains it, the Jonathan's mail lists what would be needed and it looks like there are some blockers on the infra side. Disregard. -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Florian Festi
On 10/06/2014 06:53 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Get to coding. ;) As mentioned elsewhere, the problem *is* signatures. yum (quite rightly) refuses to install an rpm whose signature doesn't match the one in the primary repodata. And I believe that the signature in the RPM is also over the

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.10.2014 um 19:45 schrieb Florian Festi: On 10/06/2014 06:53 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Get to coding. ;) As mentioned elsewhere, the problem *is* signatures. yum (quite rightly) refuses to install an rpm whose signature doesn't match the one in the primary repodata. And I believe

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 10/06/2014 07:53 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: As mentioned elsewhere, the problem *is* signatures. yum (quite rightly) refuses to install an rpm whose signature doesn't match the one in the primary repodata. And I believe that the signature in the RPM is also over the whole compressed rpm.

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-06 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On 10/06/2014 08:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.10.2014 um 19:45 schrieb Florian Festi: The way of getting around all this unnecessary computation is establishing trust via the deltarpm itself and giving up the idea of reconstructing the originally rpm as a prove of everything worked out