yum-presto - fast updates for Fedora 7 - make it ROCK SOLID

[valent]

Please go to:
http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto
and help beta test yum-presto.

Q: What is yum-presto?
A: If you used updated on SUSE or Mandriva then you already know of this
feature. It is an update which doesn't download the whole RPM package
but only the difference between old and new RPM packages.

Q: Why use yum-presto?
A: I run a few machines with Fedora, some which I update regularly, and
some not so much. When I come to the machine which I haven't updated in
a few weeks there are usually around 100-200MB of updates! Even though I
have a broadband connection, it still takes a LOT of time to download
all of the updated packages. Yum-presto uses deltarpms which give you
only the difference between the old package which you already have and
the new one you want. So downloads are significantly smaller and a lot
quicker.

Please help support this project so it goes through beta testing and
gets full support in Fedora 7. This project needs you!

Valent.

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[devils casper]

interesting ! i will try it soon.

[valent]

Please do, this is a great feature for new Fedora 7.

[Thrillhouse]

Are you sure this will be ready for Fedora 7? After all, they have a tentative release date of May 24th.

[valent]

Are you sure this will be ready for Fedora 7? After all, they have a tentative release date of May 24th.

I'm not the one deciding what goes in Fedora 7. But I know that if not enough people test it it wont. So please tell me have you installed it and tested it? On my system 'yum update' works perfectly with presto plugin enabled - I run Fedora Core 6.

I can tell you that the developer I mailed with on fedora-devel mailing list as I understood him that it will be in Fedora 7 so we need to make it as stable as possible. So please test it out and give your feedback.