One of the problems raised in earlier threads is that the RPMs need to be available on the updating computer to apply the patches to.
It is feasible -- if such a system can be demonstrated to work -- to have the option at install time to keep the RPMs of installed packages on disk? Sure, there is a disk space penalty -- but for a dialup user the bandwidth savings would make up for that. Even with my 512Kbps DSL line I find the OpenOffice upgrades burdensome.
Also having the signed RPMs on disk may have other uses: eg verify the integrity of an installation (compare files with those in the RPM). Fix/refresh installation.. etc.
Joe.
On 03 Mar 2005 16:33:56 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2005, Joe Desbonnet <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Has anyone thought about improving the up2date service by offering > > diff files in addition to the .rpm files? > > Yup, see mail thread in this very last by the end of January last > year, and many others :-) > > -- > Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ > Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} > Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} >
