On 11/27/03 Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > i want to share an idea. > > Normally when you upgrade an old package the complete source-archive > is downloaded from a server. Afterwards it is unpacked, compiled and > installed. > > This way is efficent for smaller source archives but not for bigger > ones. > > What about only downloading diffs (if available) and applying it to > the older version. This would reduce download times on client side and > load on server side. Ok - there must be a method to decide when it's > better to retrieve a complete package. > > I think this would be an enchancement to the emerge process. > > Your thoughts ?
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0009.html IIRC we still wait for some numbers how much additional space it would need on the mirrors. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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