yum-deltarpm (Was Thread Hijack - Our package management GUI tools need improvement)

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Mar 11 18:07:21 UTC 2007


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> If you had efficiency threashold at >50% and size of ORIGINAL rpm
>> larger than a certain size (say 1 meg? 10 megs? that would be up to
>> whoever is doing the work and not me, a lurker), it could work.
>>
> Another metric could simply be absolute size of the difference.  If a
> major openoffice.org-core update was only a 25% savings, that would
> still be about 25MB of data. 
> 

Err, yes, this is what I meant. =)

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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