On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 16:46 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:13 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Is there any work being done for a modern update system that would > > only download what is needed instead of an entirely new rpm? I'm sure > > everyone has seen the updaet system that Firefox has. It's beautiful. > > How is that going to work on Fedora Core 5? Is it disabled? > > Eitherway, such an update system on Linux would be a watershed moment > > perhaps. A grand slam. It is a bit ridiculous that FC4 updates have > > possibly mounted up to 10 GB for me.. maybe an exaggeration but you > > know what I'm getting at. > > > > So any such project out there? I think there is a project that does this, and has been doing it for quite awhile. It's called Microsoft Windows. The problem that this method poses is that it's very easy to get to a point where you have no idea what the current real state of your system is. With the modularization that already exists and is increasing all the time with Fedora (and all OS Unices out there really), updates are getting smaller and more 'directed' and bandwidth continues to increase while the price goes down. What would really be the best answer to this would be having anaconda have the ability to pull down updates from a yum repo during install, so instead of installing package Z only to have it updated to a patched version right after reboot, it's all done on the first shot. If you maintain a large number of systems, just make a mirror of the Fedora updates to keep the traffic local. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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