On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:28 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. AFAIK, SuSE handles mirroring basically the same way as RH does. I.e. they run a master server and most others mirrors are run by volunteers. > 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 Them generating delta.rpms on the fly would be news to me. At least in the past, when I had been using SuSE this didn't apply. They generated static patch- rsp. delta-rpms as part of their buildsystem, not much different from generating rpms or repodata as part of "building". AFAIS, this still applies (c.f. an arbitrary SuSE mirror ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/10.1/rpm/) Ralf -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list