[Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

Sun Nov 6 12:12:53 CET 2011

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+On 11/6/2011 5:49 AM, Matteo wrote:
+> Il 06/11/2011 10:19, Wolfgang Bornath ha scritto:
+>> 2011/11/6 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+>>> Op zondag 06 november 2011 08:15:12 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: 
+>>> [...]
+>>>> How is a download of a 600MB iso different from installing
+>>>> 600MB of updates via net? More, usually you will not need all
+>>>> updates, only updates of installed packages.
+>>> 
+>>> because they can be downloaded by someone else and burned and
+>>> delivered to someone. or, if you're doing multiple installs,
+>>> you can save time.
+>> <cut> 2. A DVD with updates This DVD may present a benefit for
+>> people with small bandwidth or in case of a multiple machine
+>> environment. Although, in such a case I'd prefer a local
+>> repository with nightly sync. A DVD with all updates is only a
+>> snapshot of one moment in the release's life, part of it may be 
+>> outdated next day or week. So, 2 weeks later we have the same 
+>> questions as today. I don't think that Mageia should offer this,
+>> not talking about the fact that everybody can do this (at the
+>> time which suits himself) without much knowledge.
+> 
+>> A DVD with updates is a nice idea for a local community where
+>> somebody has enough bandwidth to host a local repo (or even
+>> mirror) and can hand out update snapshots on request for people
+>> with small bandwidth..
+> 
+> I think that having something like apt-zip[1] on Mageia (I mean
+> based on urpm) could be a good alternative, too. Regards,
+> 
+> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/AptZip
+> 
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+
+"DeltaRPM"
+
+<http://freecode.com/projects/deltarpm>
+
+Fedora uses it this way:
+
+
+"DeltaRPM Support (Presto)"
+
+<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto>
+
+This page is old. The project/feature is now enabled by default.
+- -- 
+
+  David
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