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[Mageia-dev] [ANN] [RFC] support for deltarpms in urpmi

+ Liam R E Quin + liam at holoweb.net +
+ Wed Nov 28 00:08:54 CET 2012 +

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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:56 +0100, zezinho wrote:
+> Em 27-11-2012 17:10, Thierry Vignaud escreveu:
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+[...]
+> > - having urpmi select the right package
+> >    o either deltarpm if there's one for installed_version ->  update_version path
+> >    o or regular update package else
+
+> Well, we should not provide both, or delta rpm is useless
+
+delta rpm would be awesome for those of us with limited bandwidth.
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+Dial-up modems are still common out here.
+
+Another possibility might be a service that gets told which package
+version you have, and which you want, and tries to build a delta rpm,
+keeping a cache; the cache could be pre-populated with the most common
+entries. But that would necessitate the ability to run a program on the
+mirror.
+
+Liam
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