Re: metadata future enhancement

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Toshio wrote:
> do this.  Some people (no core developers to my knowledge) at
> Fedora/Redhat recently tossed around ideas and code for doing binary
> differencing of an rpm and then distributing these deltas.  (The user
> would have to have an rpm already present on their system to apply the
> delta to.)
>
Yeah, there was some talk on the [email protected] concerning this.  Not 
really sure of how they would do this and play well with upgrades (you
would want a upgrade to replace the original and all the 
patches?).  Anyway look on the rpm-list for some details...james

 
> -Toshio
>