A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Rex Dieter]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> So if you do have this archive (FC5 anaconda install option - install
> local rpm repository?), yum (sorry Seth...) would download the correct
> patch, apply it to the old rpm in order to create a new, fresh rpm, and
> then update using that?

Yeah, and then *every* revision of the rpm needs to be made available in 
order to construct every possible patch (unless *only* patches from the 
base rpm are ever released, which, IMO, would be bad in other ways).

This has been discussed ad-nauseum on this list before.  In short, it's 
a *lot* of work, for *little* relative gain (at best).  It's not worth it.


-- Rex