It should be a crazy challenge to come up with the most minute update, the modicum of all updates, that can be achieved.
Sure, repositories will have to grow up and embrace a new system. But with the Web 2.0 coming out everything is slowly changing anyways.
This must be done. Who wants to start? Who could start?
Benjy,
AWWTF
On 11/28/05, Brian Gerst <bgerst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Benjy Grogan wrote:
> Please, this is ridiculous. Of course it's possible. You make a
> decision: i) will a few patches be small/easy to install ii) should i
> generate a unified patch for this user iii) situation is so bad, just
> send a whole new rpm... and there the repository has done some work
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Therein lies the problem: this requires more than a simple web server to
implement.
> and
> come up with the best solution for you. ... and yes, there are many
> more decisions.. such as cross-package decisions etc... but this is an
> absolute must for the next gen linux distros.
>
> What's Redhat doing? What's Novell doing?
>
> Microsoft has their solution
We don't need to repeat their mistakes. Most RPMs are small enough that
there is no net gain using this method.
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