RE: A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

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Title: RE: A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

Gentoo?

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dag Wieers
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:08 AM
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
Subject: Re: A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I ask:
>
>    If you have to rip apart a *.rpm package into it's components in order to
>    achieve the goal of minimal bandwidth used to transfer a package,
>    then what exactly is the point of putting the contents in a *.rpm
>    package in the first place?

Wait a minute, why don't we just distribute a CVS repository and SPEC
files and leave the building up to the system ? Wouldn't that be a neat
idea, we could use Makefiles or shellscripts as glue ? :)

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