On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
On 3/21/06, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just tried the 'makedeltaiso' utility in the SuSE deltarpm 3.3
> package . I was able to produce a FC5 i386 DVD ISO, Test3 -> Final
> delta in only 300MB (10% of the size of the ISO). xdelta didn't
> produce any savings.
>
Sounds quite useful to create smaller "Service Packs" - if I were to
install FC5 in a few months' time, say.
How well does deltarpm handle pre- and post- (un)install scripts?
The deltas are used to re-create the full rpm packages, so no
information is lost if you use them.
regards,
Florian La Roche