On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:42:39 -0300
Claudio Freire
My point, 170 vs 120 is a lot less than 7.7 to 2.2. One is a (significant, but slight) 30% reduction, when the other is a three-fold reduction. It still can't beat the "order of magnitude" kind of reduction that would be achievable by shipping deltas.
I agree that deltas can - and generally will - be significantly smaller, like the drpm packages for updates. What I wanted to point out: the gzipped xml metadata files in the update directory of 12.1 are now something like 23MB all together. http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/ All of them are changed whenever a new update is available and will be downloaded whenever a user does "you" or something similar. Probably very often these metadata files present a bigger download amount then the actual drpm update packages. I was also surprised that the xz "version" of the xml files is only 1/3 of the gz "version". :-) Dieter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org