On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:28 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:44 +0300, Filip Tsachev wrote:
> I know SuSe implemented some sort of delta updates (I only read news
> back then), why not for rpm?
SuSE can do something like this as I do believe they run all the
mirrors.
AFAIK, SuSE handles mirroring basically the same way as RH does. I.e.
they run a master server and most others mirrors are run by volunteers.
Since Fedora is open and we allow redistribution, we have no
control over the majority of the mirrors that carry our bits. This
means that mirrors could be Unix, could be Windows, could be Linux,
could be OSX, could be anything. Delta RPMS require the server to
have some infrastructure in place to produce them on the fly
Them generating
delta.rpms on the fly would be news to me.
At least in the past, when I had been using SuSE this didn't apply. They
generated static patch- rsp. delta-rpms as part of their buildsystem,
not much different from generating rpms or repodata as part of
"building". AFAIS, this still applies (c.f. an arbitrary SuSE mirror
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/10.1/rpm/)
Ralf