A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[M A Young]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, 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.

I wrote a proof of concept tool to make and apply rpm deltas a
while ago (using rpm libraries and xdelta), see
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/rpmdelta/
I haven't do anything with it recently but I do occasionally use it to
save bandwidth on openoffice patches.

	Michael Young