Hello, on Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007, Igor Jagec wrote: > BTW what is the difference between patch and delta rpm?
IIRC: - Patch RPMs contain only modified files (as complete files). - Delta RPMs contain a binary diff of changed files, which is usually smaller than the whole file. > What is the purpose of these types of rpm packages, only to save the > bandwidth and disk space while updating? Yes, the main purpose is saving bandwidth. Saving disk space is not a purpose - AFAIK delta RPMs even need some temporary disk space to be reassembled to full RPMs. (I hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- "Alarm" heisst "al armas", also "Zu den Waffen!". Womit soll ich in meinen Rechner reinballern, wenn er Hitzealarm gibt? [Ratti in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
