Updating RPMs using binary deltas (demo)

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Tue Jan 27 11:59:40 UTC 2004


Hello Rui,

> Your average is misleading since it doesn't take in account package size
> and just the % of savings per each package.

Really? Then what does

Total RPM Size: 45140838   Total Delta Size: 16309380
  Total Savings: 28831458    63.87% savings

mean?

> well, they're really not impressive.

I would say that is a matter of opinion, and not of much interest. What
matters is if such an implementation would generate real world bandwidth
savings for people that can use those.

Bye,
Leonard.

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