From what I can tell nobody is interested in implementing a rpm.diff
system right now (please correct me if I am wrong).
One of the problems raised in earlier threads is that the RPMs need to
be available on the updating computer to apply the patches to.
It is feasible -- if such a system can be demonstrated to work -- to
have the option at install time to keep the RPMs of installed packages
on disk? Sure, there is a disk space penalty -- but for a dialup user
the bandwidth savings would make up for that. Even with my 512Kbps DSL
line I find the OpenOffice upgrades burdensome.
Also having the signed RPMs on disk may have other uses: eg verify the
integrity of an installation (compare files with those in the RPM).
Fix/refresh installation.. etc.
Joe.
On 03 Mar 2005 16:33:56 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mar 3, 2005, Joe Desbonnet <joe(a)galway.net> wrote:
> Has anyone thought about improving the up2date service by offering
> diff files in addition to the .rpm files?
Yup, see mail thread in this very last by the end of January last
year, and many others :-)
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