A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I ask:
> 
>    If you have to rip apart a *.rpm package into it's components in order to
>    achieve the goal of minimal bandwidth used to transfer a package, 
>    then what exactly is the point of putting the contents in a *.rpm 
>    package in the first place?

Wait a minute, why don't we just distribute a CVS repository and SPEC 
files and leave the building up to the system ? Wouldn't that be a neat 
idea, we could use Makefiles or shellscripts as glue ? :)

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