On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 01:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Tuesday 2006-05-02 at 00:49 +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: > > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:28:07AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > It could be uncompressed, the differences applied, then recompressed with > > > something else - but then the checksum would be different. > > > > There are more problems than just the checksum. Using different compression > > would break the iso layout of the disc. Sure, you could have recreated this > > as > > well but then what would finally be the point in distributing iso images at > > all? > > I mean that the checksum of the would be different, and this in turn means > that the iso would be different. > > I understand that applydeltaiso decomposes the iso image in the > separated rpm archives; to each rpm it applies "applydeltarpm", > generating a new rpm; finally, it collects all those new rpm in a new > iso image, with the same boot image. The "iso" is generated anew. > > However, considering that it takes 50 minutes times 5 disks = 4 hours 10 > minutes to recreate the 5 CDs,
I used 5 konsole windows running concurrently to create the 5 CDs and it took me 1.5 hours to create the new iso's. This is on a Xeon 2.4Mhz HT with 768M of ram. Try running two concurrently sometime and see if it runs faster. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
