Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 07:55 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > > Do we know how many packages on average that would apply to, it seems to > > me that unless this actually saves us bandwidth in general cases rather > > than just OpenOffice.org (which is big and hideous by nature) then it > > might not be worth it for anything but cool value. > > > > Has this been tried on something like the FC6 updates? Additionally what > > are the impacts client side of doing this, I assume a certain overhead > > in stitching the packages together is present. > > > > Aside that the idea sounds really neat and once it's ready for testing > > I'd love to give it a go. > > > > - David Nielsen > > > I have a local repository with all of Core + some Extras + some Livna + > some FreshRPMS in it. > > If someone had installed everything from my repository when I first > created it, and then had do an update to the latest version of > everything, they would have to download ~1.5 GB of updates. > > If that same person had the yum-deltarpm plugin enabled, they would only > have to download 638 MB. That is *including* all the updates that don't > have drpms because the savings isn't enough. What about people who decide to install OOo and want the latest version later on? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
