Is it possible to achieve this with Pacman?

molom · 2009-04-03 11:15:34

I have seen different positives and negatives in each package manager and I found rPath's (Foresight) quite interesting. Is it possible to develop pacman to be able to just download the files that need to be updated when updating an app, instead of downloading the whole package all over again? Sorry to mention this if it's already possible/available/planned.

Allan · 2009-04-03 11:17:26

See the pacman-dev mailing list for discussion about binary delta support. In short, this has been fixed up recently and should be possible in the future.

molom · 2009-04-03 11:22:21

Thanks Allan

cu3edweb · 2009-04-03 18:10:22

I haven't followed this at all, but that would be awesome.

molom · 2009-04-03 22:46:07

Yep, another reason to use Arch, Rolling, bleeding edge and uses binary delta compression.

Themaister · 2009-04-04 12:21:43

That would actually be brilliant ... Downloading the whole OOo all over again because of a very minor update is a bit annoying

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Is it possible to achieve this with Pacman?

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