On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:05:43PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:55:13 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> There are obviously some fixes that are required at the client level:
> yum presto plugin. However we can encourage the mirrors to presto enable
> all the repositories right away.
Well, we don't ask the mirrors to generate things, we generate things at the
source and the mirrors just pick it up. If the mirrors have to do something
themselves, we've lost.
> Since the client is in extras users can choose to install it for FC5,
> FC6 and rawhide (this one is esp interesting right now) and we should
> look at installing the plugin by default in F8.
I really don't want to add this midstream to a released product. The right
process here is to get it working in rawhide during the open development
cycle, start producing the content for it at the source, have it mirrored out
and get more and more people beating on it during rawhide. If it survives
and makes it into the released product as a default, that's awesome, from
that point on we use it. Trying to start at a released product and port
forward just seems backwards to me, and not something I want to expose all of
our "stable" Fedora 6 users to.
It is great no doubt and I have been using it for a few days now.
Updating is no more that big a drain on the bandwidth.
Here an excerpt:
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release 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Presto
extras 100% |=========================| 383 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 383 B 00:00
Reading Presto metadata in from local files
presto.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 54 kB 00:02
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB 01:18
extras : ################################################## 5139/5139
<snip>
Size of all updates downloaded from Presto-enabled repositories: 156K
Size of updates that would have been downloaded if Presto wasn't enabled: 7.3M
This is a savings of 98 percent
Installed: tomcat4-servlet-2.3-api.noarch 0:4.1.31-7jpp
Updated: blobwars.i386 0:1.06-1.fc6 gaim-encryption.i386 0:3.0-0.2.beta8.fc6
Replaced: servletapi4.noarch 0:4.0.4-4jpp
Complete!
[root@fc6host ~]#
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Is it possible to produce delta primary.xml files just as delta rpms?
The situation has changed now to xml files being bigger downloads than
the packages themselves.
Regards!
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