Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade behaviour

2003-11-27 Thread Oliver Lange
Petric Frank wrote: What about only downloading diffs (if available) and applying it to the older version. This would reduce download times on client side and load on server side. This already happens with some packages, like (for example), the latest gcc-3.2.x update (amongst many others),

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade behaviour

2003-11-26 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:11:35 +0100 Petric Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about only downloading diffs (if available) and applying it to the older version. This would reduce download times on client side and load on server side. Ok - there must be a method to decide when

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade behaviour

2003-11-26 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Spider, On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:44, Spider wrote: What about only downloading diffs (if available) and applying it to the older version. This would reduce download times on client side and load on server side. Ok - there must be a method to decide when it's better to