[openFATE 307145] delta rpm's for all major repositories
Feature added by: Bill P (google01103) Feature #307145, revision 1 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: 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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #307145, revision 2 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: 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 + 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Bill P (google01103) Feature #307145, revision 3 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: 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 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). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Petr Mladek (pmladek) Feature #307145, revision 5 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: 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 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #307145, revision 7 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important - Package Wishlist: 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 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Alex Richardson (alerich) Feature #307145, revision 8 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: 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 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #307145, revision 9 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories - Buildservice: Unconfirmed + Buildservice: Evaluation 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 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307145
Feature changed by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #307145, revision 10 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Evaluation 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
Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #307145, revision 11 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Evaluation Priority - Requester: Important + Requester: Mandatory 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
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
Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #307145, revision 13 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Hackweek V: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Mandatory 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
Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #307145, revision 14 Title: delta rpm's for all major repositories Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory - Hackweek V: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) + reject date: 2010-11-04 14:44:17 + reject reason: buildservice feature. Priority - Requester: Important - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed - Priority Requester: Mandatory 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
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