On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 13:25 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 11:54 +0200, Joachim Frieben wrote: > > > yum-presto will help a lot more. But maybe there should be also delta-xml > > > files for the repository metadata, because it takes very long to download > > > these, too, with a slow connection. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Till > > > > Right, this is a very serious point. Right now, the meta data in my /var/cache/yum/development amounts to about 65 MB which alone would take 5 hours to download via a standard analog modem connection! > > I'm looking into generating deltas for the xml, but there are a few > other things on my plate at the moment. The real issue is that it's not > always xml files that we download...sometimes we get sqlite files. > > What we need is to have a program that uses the modified bsdiff > algorithm in deltarpm to generate differences between regular files, not > just deltarpms. What's been discussed on yum-devel is generating a textual diff from old-repodata to new-repodata so we can produce a comparable sqlite w/o downloading as much. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
