Can we have a Delta-DVD release

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 06:56:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:40 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> On 04/20/2009 10:15 PM, James Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > After all, I think some of the large language packages would have a
> > pretty small delta between 6 month release cycles.
> >
> 
> Note that nearly every package is rebuilt between releases.
> 
> For this to make any difference at all, it would have to delta not only 
> the bits of the RPM packages, but delta the uncompressed RPMS against 
> each other.
> 
> Does any tool do this today across an entire ISO image?

There is makedeltaiso in the deltarpm package.  I haven't tested it much
as I don't use the DVD iso images to install.

Jonathan
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