Re: full file paths in the dependency metadata [was Re: Fedora 34 Change: DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants (System-Wide Change)]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:14 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > As someone who has to package for multiple distributions, I would > > oppose any attempt to cripple DNF to stop supporting file dependencies > > properly. I *aggressively* use

Re: full file paths in the dependency metadata [was Re: Fedora 34 Change: DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants (System-Wide Change)]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > As someone who has to package for multiple distributions, I would > oppose any attempt to cripple DNF to stop supporting file dependencies > properly. I *aggressively* use file dependencies to avoid having to > litter my spec files with

Re: full file paths in the dependency metadata [was Re: Fedora 34 Change: DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants (System-Wide Change)]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 1:42 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:14:08PM +0100, Marius Schwarz wrote: > > delta rpms safe so much time in form of bandwidth on the client side. > > If something really needs to change, it is the 50+ MB repo database > > that gets downloaded. It

full file paths in the dependency metadata [was Re: Fedora 34 Change: DNF/RPM Copy on Write enablement for all variants (System-Wide Change)]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:14:08PM +0100, Marius Schwarz wrote: > delta rpms safe so much time in form of bandwidth on the client side. > If something really needs to change, it is the 50+ MB repo database > that gets downloaded. It takes ages on slow connections to download This needs a