Just a quick followup: I finally managed to cobble together a machine so that I could do a full test (FC3 fresh install -> current). Unfortunately a bug in the 0.1.0 release prevented the test from working -- I wasn't handlng byte range requests properly. That's fixed now and I'll post a new release in the next 1 or 2 days once I've finished testing. Interim results are encouraging: overall bandwidth savings between 66 - 78% (at the expense of local processing power -- those with slow machines on fast links may not benefit). Joe. On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:09:07 +0000, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The first version of my delta compression RPM virtual repository / > proxy server is ready. This is just a proof-of-concept at the moment, > but it may be good enough to be useful to some. Here are the release > notes: http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/releasenotes-0.1.0.html > > Right now you need to have the following to get it to work: > * Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.31 > * Sun JDK 1.4.2 > > It may work with other servlet containers and JavaVMs but that is the > only combination I had time to test so far. If it proves useful it > should be possible to remove the Tomcat dependency and perhaps compile > to navative with gcj (?). > > I've created a delta repository to work with this software here: > http://rpmdelta.wombat.ie/rpmdelta/fc3/i386/ > > That repository covers most of the updates for FC3/i386 and is only > 250MB in size (compared to over 1GB for the RPMs). > > The release is available here: > http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/downloads/rpmdc-0.1.0.tar.gz > > Joe. >
