Yum deltarpm

[Mike McGrath]

On 1/17/07, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:29 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On 1/17/07, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Then limit the delta to the most common update paths.  If the desired
> > > delta doesn't exist when the user tries, it can fall back to download
> > > the full RPM.  No big loss.
> >
> > Does anyone track how many updates are released / day?  I should start
> > tracking that, I bet its significant.
> >
>
> If you're willing to work with per-day granularity - you can do it with
> repoquery. Just compare the changes in 'updates-released' from one day
> to the next.
>
> Keep in mind the package doesn't always go up. Sometimes old pkgs get
> removed. So it could remain the same number but new pkgs are released.
>
> -sv

i think a lot of this has been discussed before in Fedora.  Anyone
know of any threads we can point Ahmed at?  Looks like there's a lot
of work to be done :-D

           -Mike