On Friday 09 January 2004 07:36 pm, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > To repeat the gist of the last message I wrote on this subject ot > > fedora-devel, I am going to implement a diffing system for the PostgreSQL > > RPMs that I distribute from ftp.postgresql.org. I will see how it works, > > once I get around to doing it. Then if the Fedora Core project wants to > > adapt it, that is up to them. > That sounds better. How did you solve the signing issue? Straight binary > diffs won't work very well you see. I haven't solved the signing issue yet. Thus my request for comments in -devel. The archives of that list are public; see a thread "Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas." As mentioned on that list, SuSE are distributing binary patches NOW. They do have space savings NOW. Their method could stand some improvement; we can improve upon it. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
