> 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 >
Oh, good to hear. Then I'm sorry about misleading info. (I don't follow this delta stuff at all, that's why I referred to Xavier). Bye _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
