On 2/27/07, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Valent Turkovic wrote:
If this has already been discussed sorry for my lack of knowledge.
I probably had to write this a year ago, but I hoped that it would happen in Fedora Core 6. When it didn't I was surprised and shocked!
Thats what happens when you assume things would happen on their own instead of working on it ;-)
I'm not a coder and don't plan to start anytime soon :) But I can help in other ways. I can BUG other people that do know to start doing it. That's why I'm on this list :)
SuSE, Fedora and Mandriva use RPM packages, but Suse (mandriva adopted it also) uses delta rpm packages for updated. Which is a GREAT solution for updates because they are a fraction of the whole download. Even on a high bandwidth ADSL line it takes a lot of time (and banddwidth) to download Fedora updates. Delta RPMs are an extreme upgrade to standard updated so please consider adopting it.
So I applaud you if this is already in the works for Fedora 7, and you get a really, really strange look from me if it is not.
It isnt targeted for any particular release but there is work being done at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumDeltaRPM
Sorry if my tone seams a bit rough; but a wiki page means nothing to us users. Is anybody working on this? How seriously are you doing this? Why isn't it implemented already in FC6 and is it planed for F7? Others have this nailed a long time ago (in distro time), so I don't think that Red Hat/Fedora team is any less competend to do this, but only IF they recognise the importance of such feature!
And it is a REALLY important feature.
Thank you for all your effort for making Fedora a great distro it is!
You are welcome.
Rahul
If you started a pledge for deltarpm I would donate to it. And I can write, and bug people :) As I say I'm not a coder. I'll write a blog post explaining what each major distro is missing from users point of view. I hope my text makes some changes.
Bye.