A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Chuck R. Anderson]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:35:17PM +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> From what I can tell nobody is interested in implementing a rpm.diff 
> system right now (please correct me if I am wrong).
> 
> One of the problems raised in earlier threads is that the RPMs need to 
> be available on the updating computer to apply the patches to.

They are already often available in /var/cache/yum/ or 
/var/spool/up2date or /var/spool/repackage if you have rollbacks 
enabled.