-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-27 at 09:49 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
Perhaps you could add a tunning control (user accesable) to be able to chose deltas, patches or whole rpm depending on the sizes of each and the network bandwidth, and the available memory?
Just an idea.
And a good one.
But how should the updater decide which one to use ?
That's the question! O:-)
Automatically based on cpu power, memory and network ? Configurable by user ? Based on size of package ? ...
Al of them... automatically based on cpu, memory, network, and size of package, plus user configuration. A triffle. I don't know. Perhaps some thing that, based on previous assumptions guestimates how long will it take on each road, and decide. The calculation will depend a lot on each particular machine setup, so it's doubtfull it can be acurately calculated, so perhaps best thing is to base decisions on data from previous sessions. And unless that data is feedback to you, you want be able to initialize the functions properly - but that opens another problem, because people is sensitive to to data gathering. Or from user configuration altogether. A user on an expensive network will probably want deltas all the time, and one on a cheap, big pipe will prefer big packagaes in full. It's not simple to calculate... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGMdBAtTMYHG2NR9URAsTEAJ48YodPbkVlD8wZkpQF/F7/mxuVHgCfZ/d0 SbuhiPSWfxGBJ8FQ8LHwdN8= =M63p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org