Re: createrepo not generate deltarpm in case of update

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?)