On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram<<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: > Hi > > <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=904">http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=904</a> > > "Fedora 11 introduced a great new feature: delta RPM updates. This > feature creates delta RPM packages (.drpm) that are binary “patches” to > the existing RPM packages. Instead of downloading all files, regardless > of whether they have changed or not, a delta RPM will only download the > files that have changed compared to the previous RPM package. > > Once the delta RPM is downloaded by the Presto plugin for yum, it will > try to reconstruct a full RPM based on the contents of the previous RPM, > plus the newly changed files from the delta RPM. The newly-created RPM > will then be installed by yum." > > Rahul Its a great feature certainly. I am already reaping the benefit. I can keep my Fedora setup updated by downloading less amount. kudos to the developers and package manager. Cheers // Imtiaz Rahi Ogden Nash - "The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat."