parallel downloads is the answer imho. ( or at least one of the answers :) )<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/12 Justin Conover <<a href="mailto:justin.conover@gmail.com">justin.conover@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Caolan McNamara <<a href="mailto:caolanm@redhat.com" target="_blank">caolanm@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:54 +0200, drago01 wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover<br>
> <<a href="mailto:justin.conover@gmail.com" target="_blank">justin.conover@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div>> At 34MB it still takes<br>
> > time, but .deb is 50MB cheaper that the .rpm.<br>
><br>
> you are comparing two different packages (2.0.4 and 2.4)<br>
<br>
</div>There's a few other problems with a direct comparison of sizes because<br>
they are two packages called "core" with somewhat differing content. The<br>
Debian "core" package depends on a "common" package which is an<br>
additional 27megs in size. The content of both of these is included in<br>
the single Fedora "core" rpm. Additionally the default help content is<br>
included in the Fedora "core" rpm, which is available in the deb<br>
packages as help-en_US, which is another additional 11 megs.<br>
<br>
Additionally displaying help itself requires the use of the core writer<br>
libraries to render the html help, in Debian this means that the<br>
"writer" package is a dependency of help, and that's an additional 6megs<br>
in size in its .deb. While in Fedora writer is split into the optional<br>
bits called "writer" and the core required for use by help. Shrinking<br>
the "writer" rpm by approx 3 megs, and inflating the "core" one by the<br>
same.<br>
<br>
To manually extract the various contents for side-by-side comparison you<br>
can use<br>
<br>
rpm2cpio something.rpm | cpio -ivd<br>
vs<br>
ar x something.rpm<br>
tar xzf data.tar.gz<br>
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<br>My main deal here is about the speed in which it takes to download all updates and install. I was merely trying to understand why debian seems to be much faster. <br><br>I've been a loyal Fedora user since RH 6.2 or some were in there :) so I'm not leaving, just trying to understand when i play with it once in awhile it just handles downloads differently.<br>
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