Tom Horsley:
My average for years was about 1%, and half of those would say
"checksums don't match" and download the full rpm anyway. I turned
off drpm a while back because it was so useless.
I suspect it's only going to really advantage people that do daily
updates, or update almost every time there's a new version released.
If you only do updates one a week, or less often, there may be several
updates in the meantime, and the delta mayn't be able to span that many
releases.
I used to see some surprisingly small DRPM downloads. It's no real
surprise when you consider that a bug fix to a package may probably
only be a small tweak. I used to razz a Windows friend about very
quickly downloading lots of updates of only a few kilobytes, and doing
it in the background, without stuffing up what I was doing at the time,
and rarely needing to reboot. He was re-installing his entire OS
almost once a week.
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