That reminds me of Chaotic AUR, though it’s an online public repo. It automatically builds popular AUR packages and lets you download the binaries.
It sometimes builds against outdated libraries/dependencies though, so for pre-release software I’ve sometimes had to download and compile it locally still. Also you can’t make any patches or move to an old commit, like you can with normal AUR packages.
I’ve found it’s better to use Arch Linux’s official packages when I can, though, since they always publish binaries built with the same latest-release dependencies. I haven’t had dependency version issues with that, as long as I’ve avoided partial upgrades.
Patching means rebuilding. And packagers don’t really publish diffs. So it’s use all your bandwidth instead!
With stuff like rsync, diffs can be calculated on the fly. But it requires way more server cpu than just chucking files onto the network.
Which is WAY more economical.
Rebuilding packages takes a lot of compute. Downloading mostly requires just flashing some very small lights very quickly.
If you have multiple computers, you can always set up a caching proxy so you only have to download the packages once.
That reminds me of Chaotic AUR, though it’s an online public repo. It automatically builds popular AUR packages and lets you download the binaries.
It sometimes builds against outdated libraries/dependencies though, so for pre-release software I’ve sometimes had to download and compile it locally still. Also you can’t make any patches or move to an old commit, like you can with normal AUR packages.
I’ve found it’s better to use Arch Linux’s official packages when I can, though, since they always publish binaries built with the same latest-release dependencies. I haven’t had dependency version issues with that, as long as I’ve avoided partial upgrades.
Yeah, totally is. There’s a reason nobody publishes diffs
openSUSE Leap does have differential package updates. Pretty sure, I once saw it on one of the Red-Hat-likes, too.
But yeah, it makes most sense on slow-moving, versioned releases with corporate backing.
Ooh, got any links on how Leap does this? My searching isn’t yielding much
Had to search for a bit, too, but finally found the relevant keyword: Delta RPMs
(Which also explains why it’s a Red Hat / SUSE thing. 😅)
Here’s a decent article, which links to some more in-depth explanations: https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-get-started-delta-rpms/
Thanks, really well hidden feature here for someone I’m sure
I don’t think anyone actually uses these