Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #307145, revision 12 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory + Hackweek V: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important Requested by: Bill P (google01103) Description: I understand this is planned but have not seen any recent mention of it and considering as how the recent updates to the KDE4 factory repo's has been both large and frequent this would be a most desirably feature for those of us with slower dsl and dialup connections Relations: - Patch channel creation (feature/id: 308789) Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-08-06 14:02:58) Yeah but because things change often, it would beg the question how many deltas to keep, because they also take up space. #2: Bill P (google01103) (2009-08-08 22:05:00) (reply to #1) but they (deltas) take up minimal amounts of space and space is cheap and the amount of bandwidth saved would be considerable. Updates would become so small that people with slow connections would not postpone updating which would keep their systems more secure and functional. At some point this will be a plus when choosing distro's and Fedora has announced they will be doing this (though not sure if all repo's are to be included). #3: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2009-09-07 11:48:08) It would be useful also for OpenOffice.org. It is huge. The stable repo is updated few times a year. The unstable repo is updated every few weeks. #4: Alex Richardson (alerich) (2010-01-15 22:45:58) Would be very nice for repos with big files, personally I love it for the KDE + Qt repositories, since I update thos quite frequently. IMO no need to have delta-RPM for files < 1 or 2 Megabytes (or some other threshold), but something like libqt4-devel-doc-data should really have a delta rpm, since it is after all a 90 Meg download. #5: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2010-02-20 11:56:26) A basic start has been done with the _patchinfo xml support. This depends first on the implementation of the patch channel support implementation. However this may never be usable for ongoing repository streams like the KDE project -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145