[pacman-dev] Yum-presto like

[Allan McRae]

Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
> Allan McRae escribió:
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>> Matias Hernandez Arellano wrote:
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>>> It's posible to use or create something like yum-presto for pacman?
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>> Is it possible for you to describe what yum-presto is?
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>> Allan
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> (sorry for my english)
> Yum-presto (formelly presto) is a plugin for yum (a pacman like for Fedora).
> This plugin optimize the size of the updates using deltarpms.
> The idea is check the difference between installed package and the new
> one to only download the difference, like a patch..
> You can read here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto
> and here http://lwn.net/Articles/329484/
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Using package deltas has been fully implemented in pacman but currently 
Arch does not use it.

Allan