Re: Modern Update System

[Benjy Grogan <benjy grogan gmail com>]

Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think.  Having to have the initial rpm on your hard drive all the time would be another kind of waste.

It comes down to more fundamental changes.  If the method of keeping rpms on your hard drive is ditched then you're left with sending pure binary patches to the actual files.  That's the best way, but a complete reorganization is then needed.

Sounds like one of these long projects that requires corporate funding to see it through a few years work.  I think it's an important enough challenge to tackle that Red Hat, IBM and Novell should work together to do this.

It's alot of work any way it's done.  Best to go for the best solution and find some backing and then hope everyone interested shows up to help out.

Benjy,
AWWTF

On 11/29/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating j2solutions net> wrote:

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:32 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> Well, that's fuckin' awesome.  Someone could tag Openoffice to use the yum
> plugin if they wanted it to be updated using the deltas approach and save
> 100 MB just like that.

At the cost of how much more disk space needed on the mirrors, and
bandwidth used to sync mirrors?  Do we break rpm all together and just
put raw files out there no longer in rpm format?

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