[Rpm-metadata] createrepo not generate deltarpm in case of update

[Farkas Levente]

is there any progress or feedback about it?


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>wrote:

> On 11/27/2012 09:06 PM, James Antill wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 13:56 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> if i run this command:
> >> createrepo --update --deltas --num-deltas 20 --oldpackagedirs x x
> >> then it never generate drpms while if i remove --update ie:
> >> createrepo --deltas --num-deltas 20 --oldpackagedirs x x
> >> it's generate. why? i'd like to use --update since it's a rather large
> >> repo and only a very small portion change, but i also like to generate
> >> drpms for the updated packages.
> >
> >  I assume you mean it doesn't generate deltas for packages it's already
> > found in the metadata?
> >  At a guess that was probably a time saving thing, and/or just never
> > thought to be needed. What is the usecase you need it for (where you are
> > doing an update but don't have deltas for the old packages?)
>
> i mean if there is a
> a-1.0
> in the repo and i add
> a-1.1
> then it won't generate delta between a-1.0 and a-1.1.
> while this is the most common use case:-)
>
> --
>   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
>



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