Valent Turkovic wrote:
If this has already been discussed sorry for my lack of knowledge.
I probably had to write this a year ago, but I hoped that it would
happen in Fedora Core 6. When it didn't I was surprised and shocked!
Thats what happens when you assume things would happen on their own
instead of working on it ;-)
SuSE, Fedora and Mandriva use RPM packages, but Suse (mandriva adopted
it also) uses delta rpm packages for updated. Which is a GREAT solution
for updates because they are a fraction of the whole download. Even on a
high bandwidth ADSL line it takes a lot of time (and banddwidth) to
download Fedora updates. Delta RPMs are an extreme upgrade to standard
updated so please consider adopting it.
So I applaud you if this is already in the works for Fedora 7, and you
get a really, really strange look from me if it is not.
It isnt targeted for any particular release but there is work being done
at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumDeltaRPM
Thank you for all your effort for making Fedora a great distro it is!
You are welcome.
Rahul
