yum-presto - fast updates for Fedora 7
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 4 17:03:47 UTC 2007
RavenOak wrote:
> What about server-side? Either the server or the client needs to do a
> binary/rpm diff.
It's on the client. Most of our mirrors prefer not running any code on
the server.
If it's the client, that really doesn't cut down on
> bandwidth because the client would have to d/l the new package to diff
> it against the old one (and if it didn't have the old one, d/l it
> too).
It doesn't need to download the old one too. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumDeltaRPM
Rahul
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