A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 10 08:55:45 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:14 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> Here is my (draft) idea as to how to explore this further. The
> advantage of this approach is that it can work as a separate 3rd party
> add on software without any modification to the existing software. I
> have to confess I'm currently not very familiar with the inner
> workings of up2date, apt, yum etc, so maybe there are gotchas here I
> havn't thought about.

Make sure you support byte-range requests. Yum uses http byte-range
requests to download the header of the rpms directly from the rpms on
the remote site. Most proxies can deal with that but it's just something
to be aware of.

-sv




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