I downloaded and installed LibreOffice 5.2.0 beta2 as described in LibreOffice 5.2.0 beta2 as a snap package. It weighed in at 1015 MiB.
There will certainly be more updates before the RC is out. My question is this: will snap packages get differential (delta) updates or will the entire snap package, 1 GiB in this case, have to be downloaded each time?
(BTW: this version fixes the long-standing vanishing clipboard content issue!)
Postscript question: I want to know if I can delete libreoffice_5.2.0.0.beta2_amd64.snap
, the 1 GiB "source" file, or must it remain on the system for the delta updates to work?
This OMG! Ubuntu article says delta:
Newer Apps, Larger
One side-effect of the ‘bundle’ approach is, naturally, a larger
initial package size.
But Snaps are clever; transactional and delta updates allows devs to
only upgrade the parts that need updating, be it a single lib, an app
icon, or the entire freaking thing.
The documentation on Snappy Ubuntu Core also mentions these points:
- The OS and application files are kept completely separate, as a set of distinct read-only images.
- Transactional, image-based delta updates for the system and applications that can always be rolled back.
- These files are read-only, which means they cannot be tampered with and can be updated perfectly and predictably every time.
- Signatures and fingerprints ensure you’re running exactly what was published by the developer, no funny business even if the bits came
from the internet.
- Delta management keeps the size of downloads to the bare minimum.
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