[pacman-dev] Yum-presto like

[Allan McRae]

Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
> Allan McRae escribió:
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>> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
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>>> Allan McRae escribió:
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>>>> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
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>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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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>> Using package deltas has been fully implemented in pacman but
>> currently Arch does not use it.
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>> Allan
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> Sorry for my insistence...
> This implementation is in a new version of pacman? or Arch never will
> have this feature?
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The current version of pacman supports this feature but the Arch repos 
are not set up to use it.

Allan