On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms
for
>>>>> wesnoth-data due to it's size.
>>>>>
>>>> Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Patches welcome.
>>>
>> Part of it is lingering in bugzilla:
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563866
>>
>> I am using a locally rebuilt (due to upstream refusing to provide one in
>> Fedora) patched createrepo as part of a 3rd party repo's infrastructure.
>>
>>
> That doesn't actually help. It doesn't address the base problem of how
> delta rpm does its work, by reading everything into ram
Correct, but it makes "running out of RAM" scalable. It allows you to
extend the hard-coded limitations to the HW you are using and to the
actual demands of your packages.
And right now the values used are scaled to the hardware we have at
hand. So adjusting it wouldn't help Fedora one bit.
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