On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:46:39PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Thats 4 different deltas that would have to be available. We're > talking about a huge amount of wasted space. The huge amount of wasted space comes in having to store tons of RPM files that have duplicated contents. A conary[1] repository avoids this, as each unique file is stored only once in a repository. Each changeset request is processed dynamically by the repository server. The result of the changeset request is cached with the file contents omitted. The files are filled in when the client downloads the changeset. Of course this means that mirrors have to run a repository server instead of a simple http/ftp/rsync mirror. Some mirror sites will be unwilling to host an application. Some will value the disk space and data transfer savings that changeset-based updates can provide. But there's very little chance that Fedora or Red Hat will move away from RPM, so this information is fairly irrelevant. [1] http://wiki.conary.com/ Cheers, Matt -- Matt Wilson rPath, Inc. msw@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
