apt and delta-rpm

[jean-seb]

Panu Matilainen a écrit :
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, jean-seb wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello all :)
>>
>> I would like to integrate "delta rpm" in Gralinux (to work with apt):
>>
>> Panu, do you think it's easy to make it work without problems???
>>     
>
> I'm not really familiar with delta-rpm, but a brief look at yum-presto (a 
> delta-rpm plugin for yum) suggests supporting delta rpm would require 
> nontrivial amount of nontrivial apt-rpm hacking.
>
> I added delta rpm support to the long-term roadmap though :)
>
>  	- Panu -
>   

Cool :)
you know, when I see that you need to download 120mb to update
openoffice,  the delta rpm is only a 8kb file ..  low bandwidth users
will be happy :)

Thanks for the work to apt Panu :)


js.