[arch-general] Presto for pacman?

[David C. Rankin]

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:09:14 am Allan McRae wrote:
> Magnus Therning wrote:
> > Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman?
> >
> > Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package
> > format that prevents it?
> >
> > /M
> >
> > [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto
> >   
> 
> This is already implemented in the unreleased pacman codebase.  Once 
> this gets released we need to figure out how to deal with this from the 
> package distribution side.
> 
> Allan
> 
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> 
> 

Excellent,

	Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple machine updates, so (2) if possible, can an option be retained to enable/disable use of deltarpms for folks that would like to have full packages?

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