delrarpm in core or extras

[Florian La Roche]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have just tried the 'makedeltaiso' utility in the SuSE deltarpm 3.3
> > package . I was able to produce a FC5 i386 DVD ISO, Test3 -> Final
> > delta in only 300MB (10% of the size of the ISO).  xdelta didn't
> > produce any savings.
> >
> 
> Sounds quite useful to create smaller "Service Packs" - if I were to
> install FC5 in a few months' time, say.
> 
> How well does deltarpm handle pre- and post- (un)install scripts?

The deltas are used to re-create the full rpm packages, so no
information is lost if you use them.

regards,

Florian La Roche