Re: RPM deltaing tool

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> > Note that the attached scripts do reconstuct the target rpm byte for byte,
> > and could quite easily be turned into a usable application without much
> > work, though it could be done more efficiently.
>
> Now that compression and signing no longer seem to be an issue we could
> probably start ripping the archive apart and see if deltaing individual
> files helps in decreasing the delta size.

xdelta uses small block sizes so splitting up files is unlikely to help.
The total delta file sizes in the demo are probably close to optimal. It
was things like the processing, and using one rather than two delta files
that I had in mind when I was thinking about efficiency.

	Michael Young


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