On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Thomas Hille wrote: > But I don't think that changing names/paths occur that often (I may be > wrong here, but I doubt it). One place this does happen is docs files where the path depends on the rpm version. > The other argument against using the whole rpm would be resources: > memory consumption is O(n) according to Joe's nice page with the test > results. And time is O((n+m) log n) according to the bsdiff site. And > having big packages like OOo or kernel reducing the input-file-size > would do a great job in reducing needed resources. Splitting rpms up will save processing resources, but is likely to take up a bit more bandwidth due to the per file overheads. It certainly won't save bandwidth as the deltas ignore anything that is the same at both ends. The real solution is to split up rpms a bit more and not having huge single rpms that are the size of a CD when decompressed. Fortunately it seems people agree with me, as it looks like openoffice.org will be in smaller pieces in FC4. Michael Young
