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On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:09:14 +0000 |
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Leon Chiver <leon@××××××.ro> wrote: |
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> I've installed gentoo and I must say that I'm very pleased whith it. |
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> Marvelous job. |
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> But there's still one feature I'm missing and which regards the update |
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> procedure: wouldn't it be nice if we could upgrade from one version of a |
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> package to another by only downloading the diff? A few days before I've |
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> installed mozilla-1.0, today I emerged 1.0.1. But I had to download the |
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> entire 1.0.1 archive, instead of only a diff file. For people with a |
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> limited internet access this would be a really great feature. |
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> Does anyone know, is such an improvement planned? |
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I had a look on the bugzilla page and did a few searches .. didn't se anything that pertains to this, but I have to admit .. |
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In the image of gentoo this should have been in portage already. |
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being able to update packages just with patches would be really nice for us low bandwidth users .. |
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Henti Smith |
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