Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Lamar Owen wrote:

> Over the past few days on the fedora list, I have participated in a discussion 
> about 'why can't we distribute patches instead of multimegabyte RPMs for 
> little changes'.

I've not thought through your RFC fully yet, but something to consider is
that SuSE does this already. It'd probably be worth looking at their
implementation as well (which seems different from what you're
suggesting)....

later,
chris