A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 10.03.2005 kl. 09.55 skrev seth vidal:
> 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.

Can't yum use "file" style access to get the rpm's?