2008/6/12 Justin Conover <justin.conover@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Caolan McNamara <caolanm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:54 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover
> <justin.conover@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 34MB it still takesThere's a few other problems with a direct comparison of sizes because
> > time, but .deb is 50MB cheaper that the .rpm.
>
> you are comparing two different packages (2.0.4 and 2.4)
they are two packages called "core" with somewhat differing content. The
Debian "core" package depends on a "common" package which is an
additional 27megs in size. The content of both of these is included in
the single Fedora "core" rpm. Additionally the default help content is
included in the Fedora "core" rpm, which is available in the deb
packages as help-en_US, which is another additional 11 megs.
Additionally displaying help itself requires the use of the core writer
libraries to render the html help, in Debian this means that the
"writer" package is a dependency of help, and that's an additional 6megs
in size in its .deb. While in Fedora writer is split into the optional
bits called "writer" and the core required for use by help. Shrinking
the "writer" rpm by approx 3 megs, and inflating the "core" one by the
same.
To manually extract the various contents for side-by-side comparison you
can use
rpm2cpio something.rpm | cpio -ivd
vs
ar x something.rpm
tar xzf data.tar.gz
C.
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Ok, everyone in this thread is replying to OOO, that was not my intent. If you compare the speed of getting updates in debian and fedora, debian is much faster. Forget package size at this point. Is it parallel downloads maybe.
My main deal here is about the speed in which it takes to download all updates and install. I was merely trying to understand why debian seems to be much faster.
I've been a loyal Fedora user since RH 6.2 or some were in there :) so I'm not leaving, just trying to understand when i play with it once in awhile it just handles downloads differently.
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