From: Lars Ellenberg (larslinbit.com)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 04:58:03 CDT

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/ 2005-07-28 11:00:19 +0200
\ Philippe Vogel:
> So this means a patch would be 2bytes long + adress-information? So
> why such big update-files?

there are update rpms, update .patch.rpms, and update .delta.rpms.
ls -l apache2-prefork-2.0.53-9*
 213624 apache2-prefork-2.0.53-9.2.i586.patch.rpm
  76867 apache2-prefork-2.0.53-9_9.2.i586.delta.rpm

about 70k of them is rpm header payload
(file list, changelog data, info etc.)
so you get about 4k of actual delta payload,
and the binary to be patched is about 350k.

what are you talking about?

cheers,

        Lars Ellenberg

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