On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:40 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > FYI, this yum deltarpm support, is based on that same deltarpm package > that is made by suse. This suse package can create new rpms from drpm > + (either ondisk files, or old rpm). Either way, a new rpm is created, > then installed. Never does it replace files directly. Not sure why > this would be bad security wise It's the construction of the rpm from ondisk files that I don't like. You lose the ability to sign the rpm that you're installing. Patching an older rpm is a safer transformation. I just googled and found an August post to yum-devel about what I think is this plugin: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2006-August/002385.html Is this right? Is there more recent code? It looks like that code is tied into up2date so it wouldn't help Fedora users much. It also needs a server side which implies the mirrors would have to run additional software to make it functional.... -Toshio
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