On Saturday 23 January 2010 11:45 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 13:55 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear fellow Fedora users, >> >> Deltarpms does help a little bit with many packages, but the kernel is >> not one of them :( >> >> kernel-devel, kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, etc do work though, how >> come kernel package is not the same? > > Basically, the kernel now has a 20MB initramfs included that is full of > 0's. When you install the kernel, it automatically generates an > initramfs to replace this "dummy" one. The reason the dummy one is in > there is so that rpm can accurately calculate how much space it needs in > boot. > > Deltarpm sees that the initramfs has changed and can't do a delta > because it thinks the initramfs should be 0's.
Shouldn't that be classified as a bug with presto/deltarpm? > Jonathan > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
