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Formats supportedFormats supportedPosted Jan 7, 2008 10:20 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Formats supported by sbergman27 Parent article: RPM 5.0 released
Hmm, surely a binary diff can just be generated on demand - diff?version_1=bash-1.rpm;version_2=bash-2.rpm - and there is no need for lots of tiny diff files to be pushed out to mirrors. Because the diffs will be much smaller, indeed there may not be a need to mirror them out. (I'm still wondering why distros don't use bittorrent for updates, the idea of mirror sites seems so clunky nowadays.)
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Impossible Posted Jan 7, 2008 23:15 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Genration of DIFF is quite slow and requires some software not usually present on ftp-mirror sites. Thus it makes sense to precreate diff files and push them to mirrors - or not use them at all...
Impossible Posted Jan 9, 2008 14:12 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] My point is, don't bother with the mirror sites, just have a single site generating the diffs on demand.
>Impossible< Posted Jan 9, 2008 14:43 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] Useless w/o caching/propagating them. Hey, go try xdelta1/xdelta3 for yourself and then imagine doing that "on demand".
Formats supported Posted Jan 12, 2008 1:31 UTC (Sat) by mp (subscriber, #5615) [Link] > I'm still wondering why distros don't use bittorrent for updates, > the idea of mirror sites seems so clunky nowadays. Actually, they try to: http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent
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