On Thursday 08 January 2004 01:54 pm, Jef Spaleta wrote:
Is providing a low bandwidth solution to updates really worth the extra testing and the extra mirroring..the extra drain on development and building resources. Are we saying that low bandwidth people are going to have to choose between rpmdiff packages and being able to use custom packages or Fedora Alternatives or 3rd party alternative rpms safely and effectively?
When updates exceed 100MB _ALL_ users are low bandwidth, and dialup users are locked completely out. So they don't update at all, get hacked, and blame Linux.
that argument. If official mirror maintainers see potential problems with carrying the rpmdiffs...their expert opinions need to be taking with grave attention.
Absolutely. I would think mirror operators would love to reduce the load on their servers, which this would as I've envisioned it. And their bandwidth bill might even go down.