Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.

Riku Meskanen mesrik at cc.jyu.fi
Thu Jan 8 20:35:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Riku Meskanen wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > bytes, but generates a 50MB download.  Something is critically wrong with
> > that picture.
>
> There is BTW a nice delta tool used distributing
> Debian CD's, see http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
>
Ah, my err. It still needs the package files,
but it just uses closest repository for building
CD:s. So it's not a solution for this need.

I agree 100%, your consern. Submitting a 50M packages
just to fix few bytes is silly.

:-) riku

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