On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 11:18, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Joe Radinger wrote: > > > is there any possibility to add the changelogs to the headers. would be > > great to be able to see what has changed in certain rpms, before having > > to download the whole file. > > I sure hope not. That would make the header data a lot bigger. Remember > not everyone has all of their machines on a high bandwidth connection. I > still have machines whose only connection to the outside world is dialup. > It is painful enough already to perform updates on these machines. I do > not wish to see it get worse. So a couple of points: 1. the changelogs are already there - just not exposed. 2. the headers are going away. The amount of data to download on an update should be considerably smaller. - http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/readme.metadata -sv
