Update patches versus full update RPM
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 10 02:28:06 UTC 2004
Steven Usdansky said:
> As an end-user, I like the concept of update patches. I'm willing to keep
> a set
> of reference rpms handy, or pay the penalty and endure the download of
> such if I
> don't.
Problem being that downloading the reference RPMs and the patch would
probably _increase_ server load.
I can think in my case having the RPMs probably wouldn't be much of an
issue. I've got a local mirror set up anyway.
My sister, on the other hand, which has only one Fedora machine and a
broadband connection, would probably not understand why she should use the
space.
Of course doing an either/or would be an option, but what do you make the
default? This all came about because people are complaining about
changing the existing default.
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William Hooper
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