[1359] in RedHat Linux List
Re: General remark about RPM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sun Oct 27 23:27:02 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:16:11 +0100."
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 23:22:12 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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Your message on: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:16:11 +0100
> I feel that the concept of RPM-s is RedHat's greatest contribution to
>(not only) Linux world. There are still great possibilities for improvement.
>
> Is the downloading of 5 Meg. binary RPM the only way how to "upgrade"
>a package if all the changes in the package were, say, to fix the permissions
>of certain file(s) and to make very few changes in one or two files?
>
> Yes, we (in old continent) have lot of mirror sites of RedHat but the
>mirroring has sometimes considerable delays. And we are not the Net bandwidth
>wasters, are we?
First of all, we have an rpm-list@redhat.com for things such as
this. :-)
Second, we are working on doing something just like this. It's basically
a crazy twist on a binary diff. It is *not* that easy to do, but it
can be done. We're working toward it, but I can *not* promise anything.
--Donnie
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