[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Is Available for Download

[Rohan Garg]

To answer the original question in regards to the ISO, I'd say have a look
at zsync.
Wrt to delta debs the issue seems to be that the implementation will create
a lot of diff between launchpad and debian, which would be difficult to
maintain, hence we have no delta debs in ubuntu right now.
On 19 Feb 2011 12:19, "Narendra Diwate" <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Narendra Diwate <
>> narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Also on topic, why isn't ubuntu moving to delta deb (i think that is
what
>>> it is called) where to update instead of downloading the whole package
only
>>> the difference is downloaded, the package is recreated using the old one
and
>>> the update done? I think Fedora uses it. Is this also possible with
Debian
>>> and how?
>>>
>>>
>> isn't that what Linux Mint's rolling distribution is about - continuous
>> package upgrades.
>>
>
>
> Rolling distro is where, there is no distro release as such but packages
are
> continually updated and so you can remain fully updated by doing small
> incremental updates regularly.
>
> LinuxMint is not rolling, but the Debian Version (LMDE) is a Rolling
Release
> and that is what i now have on my system.
>
> A delta patch is just for each package, where you either have an older
> version in your /Var cache or the package is installed in your system.
Then
> just the changed bits/files are downloaded and the whole package is
> reconstructed and then installed instead of having to downloading th whole
> package. E.g Openoffice base, instead of downloading the whole package,
just
> the changed files are downloaded and using the files already installed in
> the system, the whole package is rebuilt/reconstructed. This brings down
the
> amount of data that needs to be downloaded drastically.
>
> Fedora has already implemented a similar system since i think Fedora 11.
> There it is called delta RPM.
> --
> Regards
>
> Narendra Diwate
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