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[Billie Erin Walsh <bilwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2007 15:20, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
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>> And just what the heck are "delta iso's"? Don't even have a clue what
>> your talking about!
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> Perhaps the term "difference ISO" would be more suggestive? They're a 
> file that tells the program "applydeltaiso" how to modify an existing 
> ISO file to produce a new one. Hence, "delta", a commonly used 
> mathematical term for "change."
>
> They're useful when the changes are small by comparison to either 
> version of the ISO file itself.
>
> On the other hand, it often takes hours for applydeltaiso to complete!
>
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>> Billie Walsh
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> Randall Schulz
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Oh. OK. I sort of understand. When I use Yast to update or install
something it says "applying delta" during the install a lot of the time.
Kind of like that.

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