Hello, since I still connect to the internet by a 56K modem, I developed my own way to perform online updates: I have the openSuSE patches locally stored on my hard disk, and from time to time I connect with rsync to an openSuSE mirror (using option --dry-run) to generate a list of files to retrieve by chance. Once I have fast access (in the CIP pool of the university or at friends), I download these files onto a USB flashdisk (using command wget --mirror -i download.lst) and store them later on my hard disk. So far, so good. However, in order to save disk space, I prefer to retrieve delta patches. And here comes my problem: regardless of the value of 'download.use_deltarpm' in file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, libzypp always wants to retrieve 'full' patch rpms rather than delta rpms. Actually, I go for that. Until now I helped myself from that situation by using vsftpd, so I made yast2 and zypper believe it would download from a remote ftp server, but in any case I would prefer a way to apply delta rpms even if the source is a local directory. At meanwhile, I wrote some stuff to implement this functionality, it works very well for me. My solution is relatively simple: in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, I just implemented an additional boolean variable 'use_deltarpm_always' (I do not insist on this name). If its value is set to true, delta rpms will be used even if the repository is a local path. I am aware that this feature is of limited interest in most cases, thus I would appreciate it very much if it could be overtaken. Thanks to a good friend I have a modified specfile and a patch file to be applied on sources 4.27.1 of libzypp. If you are interested, please tell me where I can mail it to. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Axel. P.S.: if you reply by private email, you are of course welcome to write in German! ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org