Modern Update System

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:51 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> 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.

Now you're talking about something even more different.  Not just
sending single file replacements, but binary diffs?!  Just how much data
do you expect mirrors to keep?

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