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Impossible

Posted Jan 7, 2008 23:15 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Formats supported by epa
Parent article: RPM 5.0 released

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...

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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".