On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > We have delta RPMs for going from GA release packages to current > > updates and from last update to current update. Doing deltas from all > > previous updates to all future updates would become a crazy out of > > control matrix very quickly. Generating deltarpms is already a > > *gigantic* use of computing resources in the project, and extending > > that just isn't reasonable unless you have a huge hardware donation up > > your sleeve.... > There is a bit of a problem with that, though, and packages that > iterate quickly. 52.0-6 went stable on 2017-03-24. 52.0-7 went stable > on 2017-03-30. 52.0.2-2 went stable on 2017-04-05. There isn't a week > between any of those; given that (IIRC) GNOME is designed to notify > users of updates only once a week, it's quite easy to *not* be going > from 'latest minus 1' to 'latest' in this kind of scenario.
Yeah, that's fair. I'm not sure of a really good solution for this other than ostree-based flatpaks — and that has its own challenges. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
