Modern Update System

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:57 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> The problem is the rsync block size. To make rsync reuse data
> a complete block has to be found in the new rpm. If you have
> a rpm with contains lots of small files (like the kernel) that
> all are slightly changed (because they contain the version number),
> the rsync delta protocol won't help much.

I think at one point I experimented with a global search and replace
from the old version number to the new. The other way in which this
bites is because some versions of cpio insist on having filenames
starting with './' while rpm omits that. Or vice versa -- I don't
recall.

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dwmw2