yum differential updates

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/4/10, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:02 +0100, Robert Mortimer wrote:
> > On the subject of bandwidth, would it be possible to produce install
> > ISO images once a month that included latest updates? Images would be
> > dished out by bit-torrent and for each install would reduce load on
> > the main servers at time of first update.
>
> While spinning an iso set is relatively easy, verifying it is a bit
> hard.  Currently the way the trademark works, Red Hat would have to do
> all this.  Given our 6 month release cycle, that is a lot of work to be
> dropping on our heads.
>
> > Alternately produce an update repository torrent with instructions to
> > produce a local update repository. Each day a new tracker would
> > be produced and used to update the local update repository.
> > This could be automated as a script.
>
> Um, whats wrong w/ rsync?  rsync to a local mirror, you get the bits,
> you get the metadata, you only get the changed parts from day to day,
> problem solved.  Why involve torrent?  Why make it even more
> complicated?

well the reason for beeing able to mirror the update repos with a
permanently updated torrent would be simply that people are able to
share the bandwidth they have open. rsync causes lots of server load
afaik. mirroring is useful for a variety of reasons.

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

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