Feature changed by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #307597, revision 5 Title: Courgette Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Info Provider: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) Requested by: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) Description: Utilize Courgette for binary diff packages. * This will save on bandwidth costs for Novell and mirrors. * This will make updating quicker and easier for end-users. * This will especially benefit users who have capped bandwidth for downloading updates from their ISPs. * By making the update process easier, it encourages users to stay up- to-date, making systems more secure. http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courget... (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courget...) Discussion: #1: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-09-02 13:32:04) AFAIK there is no code released yet. It might be worth looking once Google makes sources available. #2: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2010-01-22 16:24:26) we want to support delta.rpm in future. Would courgette provide any advantage over it ? + #3: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2010-01-28 13:48:53) (reply to #2) + Courgette is just an algorithm which could be a part of deltarpm. But + it would be only efficient for x86 binaries and I think Jindrich Novy + from RedHat is already workin on other ways how to improve + diffing algorithms in deltarpm. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307597