yum-presto - fast updates for Fedora 7

[Ben Rankin]

This is maybe the best thing I've heard about in Fedora 7. I had no idea
they had implemented this for 7. I'll start my testing tonight.

On 4/4/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please go to:
> http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto
> and help beta test yum-presto.
>
> Q: What is yum-presto?
> A: If you used updated on SUSE or Mandriva then you already know of this
> feature. It is an update which doesn't download the whole RPM package
> but only the difference between old and new RPM packages.
>
> Q: Why use yum-presto?
> A: I run a few machines with Fedora, some which I update regularly, and
> some not so much. When I come to the machine which I haven't updated in
> a few weeks there are usually around 100-200MB of updates! Even though I
> have a broadband connection, it still takes a LOT of time to download
> all of the updated packages. Yum-presto uses deltarpms which give you
> only the difference between the old package which you already have and
> the new one you want. So downloads are significantly smaller and a lot
> quicker.
>
> Please help support this project so it goes through beta testing and
> gets full support in Fedora 7. This project needs you!
>
> Valent.
>
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