Announcement: update RPMs using delta compression for low bandwidth users

[Joe Desbonnet]

Jack,
Thanks for the feedback. Typos noted. I've just setup FC5test3 on a
VMWare virtual machine and looking into those issues now.
Regards,
Joe.


On 3/2/06, Jack Spaar <jspaar at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:18:36 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
>
> > This software is for individual Fedora users and sys-admins who need to
> > update one or more Fedora systems that are connected to the internet
> > with low to medium bandwidth link (eg dialup, ISDN, satellite).
> >
>
> I couldn't get tomcat going on FC4 easily (first time messing with it).
> So I set up tomcat on a rawhide box and pointed it to your test repo of
> deltas and a local copy of FC4 base RPMS.  Then I was able to update an
> FC4 box by changing only the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo to use
> that rawhide box as a yum virtual repo.  It worked great.
>
> A few notes:
>
> A typo in the manual (http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/manual.html):
> >In the 'updates-released' section
> >of the file change the baseurl to
> >
> >baseurl=http://localhost:8080/RPMDC/repo/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>
> Should be:
> .../core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
>
> IMO it would also be handy to have a link to the RPMDC download in the
> installation section of the RPMDC manual.
>
> Rpm-devel is required to compile deltarpm (this will be obvious to
> some from the compiler errors about missing includes).
>
> RPMDC wouldn't compile on the rawhide box [(GCC) 4.1.0 20060219 (Red
> Hat 4.1.0-0.29)] like it would on FC4, but the .war provided in the binary
> tarball ran just fine.
>
> Tomcat needed the xml-commons-apis package to keep it from complaining at
> startup.
>
> Neat project!
>
> --Jack Spaar
>
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