Is LSB going to be used in the ISO & the updates? 2010/11/8 Luca Berra <[email protected]>
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 11:43:46PM +0100, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > >> On dimanche 07 novembre 2010 at 22:33, Luca Berra wrote : >> >>> > you must include all intermediate updates packages to create the delta. >>> >>> you just have to keep track of package 1 and n-1, not all of them >>> >> >> No, because a roll back of a file can happen on any update. If a file is >> changed in release n-2 and rolled back in n-1, if you only consider packages >> 1 n-1 and n you miss the roll back for the people who updated to n-2 but >> missed the update to n-1. >> > > No, sir, > > If n contains n-1 this remains true at every increment of n, so you > never need to look at n-2 because n-1 already contains it. > > But besides the teoric discussions there is no code project to do this, > so all of this discussion is leading nowere. > current deltarpm code works by creating binary deltas between two given > rpms and, besides the fact we are not even sure it works with current > lzma compressed rpms, the points raised by nanar all hold. so i dont' > believe we will use deltarpm as it is. > > L. > > > -- > Luca Berra -- [email protected] >
