Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:59 am, Chris Ricker wrote:
> I've not thought through your RFC fully yet, but something to consider is
> that SuSE does this already. It'd probably be worth looking at their
> implementation as well (which seems different from what you're
> suggesting)....

IIRC, SuSE's patches just describe the package to be downloaded; you then 
still have to download the whole package.  That was true at least with SuSE 
7.3, which is the last version I ran.  But I reserve the right to be wrong.
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