On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:51 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think. Having to have the
initial rpm on
your hard drive all the time would be another kind of waste.
It comes down to more fundamental changes. If the method of keeping rpms on
your hard drive is ditched then you're left with sending pure binary patches
to the actual files. That's the best way, but a complete reorganization is
then needed.
Sounds like one of these long projects that requires corporate funding to
see it through a few years work. I think it's an important enough challenge
to tackle that Red Hat, IBM and Novell should work together to do this.
It's alot of work any way it's done. Best to go for the best solution and
find some backing and then hope everyone interested shows up to help out.
Now you're talking about something even more different. Not just
sending single file replacements, but binary diffs?! Just how much data
do you expect mirrors to keep?
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