On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nagy Gabor wrote: >> >> 2. Xav said, that deltas are broken. Couldn't we move this out from >> alpm code, and using it XferCommand or whatever (or implement new >> "external helper", if needed)? >> > > How broken are they? More specifically, does this code need some minor > fixes or a complete overhaul? > > BTW, this is on my big changes to get into Arch list, right behind > getting a testing repo for community. I even maintain xdelta as a reminder.
The libalpm code isn't broken at all, actually- it is just missing the scripting side of things in makepkg or repo-add. These scripts need the components to generate "delta 2.0" format, and we came across some problems with that, including compression, timestamps, and checksum mismatches. Xavier, do you remember where this all was? I thought this stuff was on the ML but I'm not sure. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
