On Saturday 20 December 2008 12:22, shirish wrote: > Reply in-line :- > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:30, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snipped> > > > Never new there was an xdelta thingy in apt. I use xdelta on > > binary files a lot for an entirely different purpose. Reduces BW > > requirements by an order of magnitude. > > Hi JDT, > Exactly my reasons for getting it into the limelight. I hope there > is some discussion and a move to have this both in Debian as well > as Ubuntu. Although from the discussions I saw on debian-devel it > seems its going to be a long wait if anything does happen there at > all :(
A update feature like xdelta clearly targeted at single users who are most likely to be newbies is indeed going to take time. Testing would be difficult. And the slightest glitch in the midst of patching an installed binary would kill the machine. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
