Michael, What would be the size of said deltarpms for Openoffice? Are there any drawbacks to the deltarpms? Benjy, AWWTF <div>On 11/29/05, Michael Schroeder <<a href="mailto:mls@suse.de">mls@suse.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:51:39AM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote: > Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think. Having to have the initial rpm on > your hard drive all the time would be another kind of waste. > > It comes down to more fundamental changes. If the method of keeping rpms on > your hard drive is ditched then you're left with sending pure binary patches > to the actual files. That's the best way, but a complete reorganization is > then needed. > > Sounds like one of these long projects that requires corporate funding to > see it through a few years work. I think it's an important enough challenge > to tackle that Red Hat, IBM and Novell should work together to do this. > > It's alot of work any way it's done. Best to go for the best solution and > find some backing and then hope everyone interested shows up to help out. Guys, the deltarpm package already does all this. It doesn't need to initial rpm on the harddisk, it can work with the installed files. The current version even has a 'combinedeltarpm' command, so you can collapse a chain of deltas into a single one. Novell uses deltarpms since over a year now, mandriva-2005 has them as well. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder <a href="mailto:mls@suse.de">mls@suse.de</a> main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote> </div>