A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Thomas Hille]

Am Montag, den 14.03.2005, 12:11 +0000 schrieb Joe Desbonnet:

> My design criteria are:
> 1. No modification to the existing software (yum, up2date etc)
> 2. Delta repository must be automatically built and maintained
> 3. Delta repository must be nothing more than a FTP/HTTP server 
> 
> Because of #2 and #3 I'm going to keep things as simple as possible
> for the moment.
> 

Do you want to do this via a standard ftp/http server (something like
apache) and build the repository via a cron-job, or do you intend to
write your own server, which implements all functions?

Either way this approach sounds good. This way you should be able
showcase the results easily to a broad user base.

What language do you use - still java? I haven't used java for 2-3 years
now, I'm more into PHP and Python at the moment. - But when you need a
helping hand, mail me.


Thomas