Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Thu Jan 8 16:05:02 UTC 2004
On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:59 am, Chris Ricker wrote:
> I've not thought through your RFC fully yet, but something to consider is
> that SuSE does this already. It'd probably be worth looking at their
> implementation as well (which seems different from what you're
> suggesting)....
IIRC, SuSE's patches just describe the package to be downloaded; you then
still have to download the whole package. That was true at least with SuSE
7.3, which is the last version I ran. But I reserve the right to be wrong.
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