A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

But... Aren't up2date on its way out, while "yum" is The New Way? With
Pup in fc4, there should also be a nice'ish gui frontend to yum that
does everything up2date (the gui end of it), better?

tor, 10.03.2005 kl. 19.59 skrev Joe Desbonnet:
> That would be one way of doing it. But I was hoping for a solution
> that would allow the nice(ish) GUI up2date system to be used
> transparently. If it works out I suspect I'll have command line tools
> + the proxy option.
> 
> BTW: is there any decent documentation on up2date (ie the system, not
> the program)
> 
> Joe.
>  
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:46 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > tor, 10.03.2005 kl. 18.11 skrev Chuck R. Anderson:
> > 
> > Then what are the proxy needed for? Just make a folder with the
> > necessary repodata and "compiled" (ie. with diffs applied) rpm's, and
> > tell yum to use that?