Modern Update System

[Benjy Grogan]

Michael,

What would be the size of said deltarpms for Openoffice?  Are there any
drawbacks to the deltarpms?

Benjy,
AWWTF

On 11/29/05, Michael Schroeder <mls at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:51:39AM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Guys, the deltarpm package already does all this. It doesn't need
> to initial rpm on the harddisk, it can work with the installed files.
> The current version even has a 'combinedeltarpm' command, so you
> can collapse a chain of deltas into a single one.
>
> Novell uses deltarpms since over a year now, mandriva-2005 has
> them as well.
>
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
>
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