On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:44 +0300, Filip Tsachev wrote: > I know SuSe implemented some sort of delta updates (I only read news > back then), why not for rpm? SuSE can do something like this as I do believe they run all the mirrors. Since Fedora is open and we allow redistribution, we have no control over the majority of the mirrors that carry our bits. This means that mirrors could be Unix, could be Windows, could be Linux, could be OSX, could be anything. Delta RPMS require the server to have some infrastructure in place to produce them on the fly, OR they have to carry deltas from every possible entry point. This could easily increase the amount of data a mirror would have to carry by an order of magnitude. Not very cool when we're already at multiple gigabites just for each Core release. I have yet to see a proposal for doing Delta rpm like actions that wouldn't cause extreme pain to the mirroring system, which we are very dependent on. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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