A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Mar 9 18:05:02 UTC 2005
Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> So if you do have this archive (FC5 anaconda install option - install
> local rpm repository?), yum (sorry Seth...) would download the correct
> patch, apply it to the old rpm in order to create a new, fresh rpm, and
> then update using that?
Yeah, and then *every* revision of the rpm needs to be made available in
order to construct every possible patch (unless *only* patches from the
base rpm are ever released, which, IMO, would be bad in other ways).
This has been discussed ad-nauseum on this list before. In short, it's
a *lot* of work, for *little* relative gain (at best). It's not worth it.
-- Rex
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