On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 21:14 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 19/11/2018 20:30, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > > On the client: > > The zchunk advantage over regular rpm is decreased network usage, while > > its disadvantage is increased disk usage (since the local chunks will > > be uncompressed). > > > > The zchunk advantage over deltarpms is much less CPU usage, while its > > disadvantages are slightly larger network usage and increased disk > > usage. > > > > Note that for most users the increased disk usage is temporary, since > > rpms are deleted after install. > > If they're deleted after install then surely next time there is an > update there won't be any local chunks and everything will have to > be downloaded? > > That's what has been confusing me about this whole thing - as I > understand it the idea is to only download new chunks and to reuse > chunks that are unchanged from earlier revisions, but it seems > that doing that would require keeping a local copy of every > installed rpm which would be a big change that nobody seems to > have mentioned.
The idea is to use the locally installed files as the local chunks, the same way that deltarpm does. Jonathan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
