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Ugh, Delta upgrades, never thought I'd wish so much that Arch would support them... (Delta upgrades means that you only download the difference between 2 versions, instead of redownloading a complete file when it has been updated, causing much smaller and therefore faster downloads)
Saturday, 18-Aug-12 15:41:55 UTC from web-
@omni Yeah, since I experienced them in Fedora, I've been wishing Arch (which is in all other ways my preferred system) would do them, too. :(
Saturday, 18-Aug-12 15:46:09 UTC from web-
@bitshift Updating urbanterror-data on an 80kbps connection will take three hours, which I consider to be slightly insane :(
Saturday, 18-Aug-12 15:46:52 UTC from web-
@omni Yeah, big monolithic data packages like that are the ideal situation for delta updates, since the raw data is large, but diffs tend to be small. :(
Saturday, 18-Aug-12 15:51:56 UTC from web
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@omni Of course, it would take more space, since the latest full package has to be kept, and deltas from [i]n[/i] old versions to the latest package also have to be kept (where [i]n[/i] is adjusted to the mirror-owner's preference, and users more than [i]n[/i] versions back do a full download this time). So maybe their main priority is keeping space usage low on the mirrors? I still think the time savings would be worth it, but I think I can see why it's not happened. (Also, extending pacman to support delta updates may not be trivial, though I don't know about that.)
Saturday, 18-Aug-12 15:50:22 UTC from web
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