[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

Sun Nov 7 09:13:30 CET 2010

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 07:56:31AM +0100, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
+>On dimanche 07 novembre 2010 at 00:54, andre999 wrote :
+>> Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+>> > * andre999 (andr55 at laposte.net) wrote:
+>> > So to update from -1 to -3 I'll download around 300KB but to upgrade
+>> > from -2 to -3 I'll download the full rpm so maybe around 20MB (in the
+>> > case the rpm is 20MB) ?
+>> 
+>> No no no no no !
+>> If from -1 to -3 is 300K, then upgrading from -2 to -3 would still be
+>> 300K.
+>> 
+>> Of course, this raises the point that the names of the original files in 
+>> -1 will have to be retained after updates, as well as the names of files 
+>> replacing them, in order to make the additional updates.  (And remove 
+>> any interim updates subsequently replaced.)
+>
+>But what append if a file modified in an update is rolled back in a 
+>subsequent update?
+
+it must be keept track of and repackaged in the new update
+
+>> This could be facilitated by making the names of the replacement files 
+>> in delta updates the original file name + a suffix corresponding to the 
+>> delta update.
+>
+>I don't understand, the files need to have the correct name to work once 
+>installed, or are you proposing that on an update to keep all previous files 
+>by suffixing them?
+
+this is not clear to me as well, André, could you rephrase?
+
+L.
+
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