[pacman-dev] Yum-presto like

[Matias Hernandez Arellano]

Allan McRae escribió:
> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
>> Allan McRae escribió:
>>  
>>> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
>>>    
>>>> It's posible to use or create something like yum-presto for pacman?
>>>>         
>>> Is it possible for you to describe what yum-presto is?
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> (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/
>>   
>
> Using package deltas has been fully implemented in pacman but
> currently Arch does not use it.
>
> Allan
>
>
Sorry for my insistence...
This implementation is in a new version of pacman? or Arch never will
have this feature?

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