What next?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 20:40:28 UTC 2005


On 6/1/05, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bandwidth friendly yum using binary delta algs.

As seen in one of the fedora lists in march. A proof-of-concept proxy
server that layers over yum. 
http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/releasenotes-0.1.0.html

If the proxy server approach works, there is no reason why it can't be
used as a general way to provide this functionality to the userbase
that needs it without shoving support for deltas into yum itself.

-jef




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