[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Is Available for Download

[Narendra Diwate]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Narendra Diwate <
> narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Also on topic, why isn't ubuntu moving to delta deb (i think that is what
>> it is called) where to update instead of downloading the whole package only
>> the difference is downloaded, the package is recreated using the old one and
>> the update done? I think Fedora uses it. Is this also possible with Debian
>> and how?
>>
>>
> isn't that what Linux Mint's rolling distribution is about - continuous
> package upgrades.
>


Rolling distro is where, there is no distro release as such but packages are
continually updated and so you can remain fully updated by doing small
incremental updates regularly.

LinuxMint is not rolling, but the Debian Version (LMDE) is a Rolling Release
and that is what i now have on my system.

A delta patch is just for each package, where you either have an older
version in your /Var cache or the package is installed in your system. Then
just the changed bits/files are downloaded and the whole package is
reconstructed and then installed instead of having to downloading th whole
package. E.g Openoffice base, instead of downloading the whole package, just
the changed files are downloaded and using the files already installed in
the system, the whole package is rebuilt/reconstructed. This brings down the
amount of data that needs to be downloaded drastically.

Fedora has already implemented a similar system since i think Fedora 11.
There it is called delta RPM.
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Regards

Narendra Diwate
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