Delta RPM support added
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 8:51 am
As part of our new infrastructure update, we have added support for Delta rpm updates. Available since Fedora 11, deltas (drpms) are binary "patches" to the existing RPM packages. Instead of downloading all files, regardless of whether they have changed or not, a delta RPM will only download the files that have changed compared to the previous RPM package saving considerable bandwidth and time on updates.
In order to configure delta rpm support on your system you only need to install the yum-presto package with:
yum install yum-presto
and when running an update you should see:
and thats it! Delta support is available for Fedora 11 and up, and EL6.
In order to configure delta rpm support on your system you only need to install the yum-presto package with:
yum install yum-presto
and when running an update you should see:
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Finishing rebuild of rpms, from deltarpms
<delta rebuild> | 5.7 MB 00:12
Presto reduced the update size by 80% (from 5.7 M to 1.2 M).
Package(s) data still to download: 14 M