As some have noticed, there haven’t been nearly as many deltarpms in Fedora since about the time Fedora 13 was released. This was a result of a couple of different bugs (see bug report here).

The first problem, affecting Fedora 13, was that deltarpms were only being created against GA. This meant that you only really benefited from them if it was the first update for that package for Fedora 13.

The second problem, affecting all Fedora releases, was that deltarpms were being deleted after each push. This meant that if you weren’t downloading your updates very frequently, you would miss a lot of them.

The good news is that both problems should be fixed in today’s or tomorrow’s push.

Edit (7/2/2010): It looks like the second problem has not been fixed. We’re still trying to track down the problem.

Bug credit: Amoeba by David Patterson and Aimlee Laderman at Micro*scope. Used under CC BY-NC

One of my friends is an Ubuntu user, and recently introduced me to the Ubuntu Lebanon mailing list. Now I haven’t subscribed, but the archives were sure interesting, and I had to ask myself, “Why don’t we have something like that for Fedora?”

So we now have the Fedora Lebanon users mailing list along with the #fedora-lb chat room on Freenode.

There’s also a page on the wiki that is supposed to serve as a starting page for Fedora Lebanon, but it may be moved.

If you live in Lebanon or if you are Lebanese (or if you wish you were Lebanese), please subscribe to the mailing list and join me in the chat room.

Letter credit: The letter by a.drian on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution – No Derivative Works 2.0 license.