I'd be willing to maintain an diff archive for FC4. I need to update the software to use deltarpm by Michael Schroeder: this is an excellent piece of software that allows binary patches to be applied without having to keep the RPMs lying around (it computes deltas on a file by file basis, ignoring config files which are likely to change). There is one (minor) thing I don't like about deltarpm: the algorithm (while good) is hard coded into the format. It would be nice if the delta format allowed different algorithms to be used. Perhaps using VCDIFF (RFC 3284 - The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and Compression Data Format). Regarding the archive: I don't have a suitable FTP server. I estimate a max of about 1GB of storage would be needed. Joe. On 6/2/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/1/05, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bandwidth friendly yum using binary delta algs. > > As seen in one of the fedora lists in march. A proof-of-concept proxy > server that layers over yum. > http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/releasenotes-0.1.0.html > > If the proxy server approach works, there is no reason why it can't be > used as a general way to provide this functionality to the userbase > that needs it without shoving support for deltas into yum itself. > > -jef > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
