Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

on Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007, Igor Jagec wrote:
> BTW what is the difference between patch and delta rpm? 

IIRC:
- Patch RPMs contain only modified files (as complete files).
- Delta RPMs contain a binary diff of changed files, which is usually 
  smaller than the whole file.

> What is the purpose of these types of rpm packages, only to save the
> bandwidth and disk space while updating?

Yes, the main purpose is saving bandwidth.

Saving disk space is not a purpose - AFAIK delta RPMs even need some 
temporary disk space to be reassembled to full RPMs.

(I hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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