Modern Update System

[Benjy Grogan]

You said Mandriva and Novell were using these two methods.  What is
preventing their widespread adoption because they seem to me to be exactly
what is need in Fedora?  Is there continued development in this direction to
creating even better tools and what those better tools would be I don't
know.

Either way, sounds great.  I should probably install Mandriva or SuSE one of
these days and check it out.

Benjy,
AWWTF


On 11/30/05, Michael Schroeder <mls at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:09:31PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > Looking at all the rpms bigger than the kernel, a whole lot of them are
> > language packs (KDE, openoffice, aspell) and fonts (asian and tetex). Is
> this
> > patch.rpm mechanism going to work on these files?
>
> Sure. Why shouldn't it work? But please don't confuse patch rpms
> and delta rpms.
>
> patch rpms are rpms which contain only changed files. They contain
> complete files, no binary delta mechanism is used. patch rpms can
> be applied to multiple versions.
> delta rpms use a binary delta algorithm and can thus be only applied
> to a single version of a rpm.
>
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
>
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