On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 10:10 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 1/12/07, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Benefits: > > ======= > > 1- Clients download faster updates. The README says drpm based update > > infrastructure can reduce required bandwidth to about 20% on the average > > 2- Also, from the server side, this should decrease our bandwidth > > requirements, and free the servers quickly to handle other users > > > > Anything that makes the end user experience better sounds good to me. > My questions are, what does it take on our end? And does it require > the mirrors to be altered in any way? Is the 20% for something that applies to the rpms or something that applies directly to the filesystem? I'm not too keen on the filesystem approach although I hear it can really improve the speed. Patching the rpms would be nice... but does require keeping old versions of the rpms on the end-user's disk. -Toshio
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