Presto: A project to add delta rpm support into yum for Fedora users http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto. A list of presto-enabled repositories is available there. Installation: ============= 1. Install yum-presto on your system (yum -y install yum-presto) 2. If your Fedora repositories aren't presto-enabled, find a mirror that is and set your baseurl to point to it. See the web site for a list of presto-enabled Fedora mirrors. 3. Now install an old rpm from a presto-enabled repository using rpm, then try updating it using yum. The plugin should kick in, try to download the drpm, reconstruct the full rpm, and yum should install that. Configuration file: ====== /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/presto.conf has the following options in [main]: keepdeltas=1 Always keep deltas in cache no matter what keepcache is set to. neverkeepdeltas=1 (default) Always remove deltas after creating full rpms. Note: If you specify neither keepdeltas nor neverkeepdeltas, presto will follow the keepcache option in yum.conf.