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linuxyogi
January 29th, 2012, 02:06 PM
I recently was using Fedora 16. One great thing about Fedora is the delta rpm package management. I was

wondering if something similar can be implemented on Debian/Ubuntu.

Are people working to bring the feature to debian ?

haqking
January 29th, 2012, 02:09 PM
I recently was using Fedora 16. One great thing about Fedora is the delta rpm package management. I was

wondering if something similar can be implemented on Debian/Ubuntu.

Are people working to bring the feature to debian ?

Ubuntu is not debian though obviously

http://debdelta.debian.net/

MadCow108
January 29th, 2012, 02:21 PM
debian has delta upgrade since ages and it works great, its just ubuntu thats really slow on adoption.
there were some efforts last cycle but they died away.
The lack of pdiff index updates which debian has since years would also make it a lot less useful.

grahammechanical
January 29th, 2012, 03:14 PM
For those of us, like me, who have no idea of what this thread is about and who thought, as I did, that it was about Debian using the Redhat rpm file format for its packages, there is this link:

http://debdelta.debian.net/

It seems, to me, that this is another example of a lot of effort being put into Linux by just one person. Do we appreciate all this work?

If this were fully developed and implemented then it would be very useful for those with dial-up modems.

I have just found this:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/debdelta.1.html

Regards.

linuxyogi
January 29th, 2012, 03:55 PM
debian has delta upgrade since ages and it works great, its just ubuntu thats really slow on adoption.
there were some efforts last cycle but they died away.
The lack of pdiff index updates which debian has since years would also make it a lot less useful.

I should have asked Delta Debian under Ubuntu....A possibility ?

hhh
January 29th, 2012, 04:08 PM
I don't know, is it?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=debdelta

MadCow108
January 29th, 2012, 04:54 PM
I don't know, is it?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=debdelta

it won't work because there is no server holding ubuntu deltas.

hhh
January 29th, 2012, 07:41 PM
it won't work because there is no server holding ubuntu deltas.
Then how come I was just able to download the deb?...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/i386/debdelta/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/debdelta/download

FuturePilot
January 29th, 2012, 10:40 PM
Then how come I was just able to download the deb?...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/i386/debdelta/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/debdelta/download

Sure the debdelta package is available but it will do absolutely nothing if installed because there are no Ubuntu delta packages.

Lucradia
January 29th, 2012, 11:35 PM
Sure the debdelta package is available but it will do absolutely nothing if installed because there are no Ubuntu delta packages.

I wish the like button was still around.

Dangertux
January 29th, 2012, 11:57 PM
You could always try using the Debian stable repos, but...That might end up making your buntu not so buntu anymore ;-)

Lucradia
January 30th, 2012, 12:13 AM
You could always try using the Debian stable repos, but...That might end up making your buntu not so buntu anymore ;-)

It also may break ubuntu actually. Some things in ubuntu can't be used proper in Debian, and vice versa due to the changes between the versioning system and other things.

hhh
January 30th, 2012, 01:46 AM
I wish the like button was still around.
Sorry for making a mistake.

Why does Ubuntu have unusable binaries in their repository?

-This has been a feature request since 2006...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/10167/will-11-04-include-delta-updates

FuturePilot
January 30th, 2012, 10:06 PM
Sorry for making a mistake.

Why does Ubuntu have unusable binaries in their repository?

-This has been a feature request since 2006...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/10167/will-11-04-include-delta-updates

Probably because it just got pulled in during the sync with Debian.