Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

nergar nergar at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 19:38:32 UTC 2009


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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