Modern Update System

Benjy Grogan benjy.grogan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 06:51:39 UTC 2005


Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think.  Having to have the initial rpm on
your hard drive all the time would be another kind of waste.

It comes down to more fundamental changes.  If the method of keeping rpms on
your hard drive is ditched then you're left with sending pure binary patches
to the actual files.  That's the best way, but a complete reorganization is
then needed.

Sounds like one of these long projects that requires corporate funding to
see it through a few years work.  I think it's an important enough challenge
to tackle that Red Hat, IBM and Novell should work together to do this.

It's alot of work any way it's done.  Best to go for the best solution and
find some backing and then hope everyone interested shows up to help out.

Benjy,
AWWTF


On 11/29/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:32 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > Well, that's fuckin' awesome.  Someone could tag Openoffice to use the
> yum
> > plugin if they wanted it to be updated using the deltas approach and
> save
> > 100 MB just like that.
>
> At the cost of how much more disk space needed on the mirrors, and
> bandwidth used to sync mirrors?  Do we break rpm all together and just
> put raw files out there no longer in rpm format?
>
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