Jigdo - A Professional Letter to Mike McGrath

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Till Maas wrote:
> On Do Dezember 6 2007, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> 
>> The current updates system is getting better each release, but I think
>> we should adjust our policies to also have an “updates-archive”
>> repository. This repository will include all signed updates that had
>> once lived in the updates repo, for the duration of the releases
>> life-cycle. I don't expect all mirrors would want to carry this extra
> 
> Once the repositories are presto enabled, an updates-archive with all the 
> delta rpms would not take as much space as a full rpm repository but provide 
> the same functionality.
> 

If in some way a mirror can regenerate a full, original RPM from all 
delta RPMs, so that Jigdo can use it as a slice, a combination of the 
two would be possible.

Without that ability, all Jigdo recognizes is full RPMs on the ISO image 
(slices), against no (zero) matches in the updates-archive/ folder (all 
partial slices).

-Jeroen