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

[Ahmed Kamal]

The idea is NOT to provide incremental updates. i.e. drpms will always
upgrade some version to latest. You should never need to install several
drpms to reach "latest" state.
I am thinking it would be best to provide at least 2 drpms
n-1 => n (previous to latest)
and
General Availability (FC6 isos) => latest

If this gets popular, we might provide n-2 => n drpms for slow updaters

On 3/11/07, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> >> If that same person had the yum-deltarpm plugin enabled, they would
> only
> >> have to download 638 MB.  That is *including* all the updates that
> don't
> >> have drpms because the savings isn't enough.
> >
> > What about people who decide to install OOo and want the latest version
> > later on?
>
> The existing full RPM on mirrors would not change.
>
> yum-deltarpm allows more rapid acquisition a desired RPM, if the
> specific transition you want is available as a drpm file.  The common
> cases would be provided in drpm.  If you are doing something uncommon,
> then you likely will just download the full RPMS like you would today.
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>
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