Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

[nergar]

Isn't Fedora working on something like this right now?? Only downloading 
the pieces that were updated? If yes, It would help to look at what they 
are doing.

Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 31.01.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Davyd McColl:
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>> I don't appreciate a 78mb download every other day because one
>> config item in the kernel config has been changed or tweaked.
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> I think what you are really asking for are incremental packages.  
> Additional to full packages, each server would supply a package-diff  
> which would allow to upgrade a given package to the next version.
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> This isn't exactly trivial (you'd have to un-archive and re-archive  
> packages to get meaningful diffs, it has to be binary safe and allow  
> to remove files), but I've read about this idea on this list before.  
> Perhaps you can find this spot and start working out something like a  
> concept or even mockup code.
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> MarKus
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