[pacman-dev] Yum-presto like

[Matias Hernandez Arellano]

Allan McRae escribió:
> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
>> It's posible to use or create something like yum-presto for pacman?
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> Is it possible for you to describe what yum-presto is?
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> Allan
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(sorry for my english)
Yum-presto (formelly presto) is a plugin for yum (a pacman like for Fedora).
This plugin optimize the size of the updates using deltarpms.
The idea is check the difference between installed package and the new
one to only download the difference, like a patch..
You can read here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto
and here http://lwn.net/Articles/329484/

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