Re: xdelta 1.1.4 issues
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Isaac Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening from Wisconsin, This post is regarding the xdelta-1.1.3 port included in FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Please direct me to the proper mailing list if this is not where I should be posting. I am attempting to use xdelta on tar files currently just over 8.2GB. My syntax to get the delta is xdelta delta oldtarfile newtarfile patchfile according to the man page. When the patchfile has been created, it is around 5.3MB in size. To verify the patchfile, using xdelta patch patchfile oldtarfile newtarfiletest yield a newtarfiletest of 465MB. Available space shouldn't be an issue, as I have 22GB available on this partition. Not about xdelta itself but about space-related problems: sometime an space-related failures goes from not enough _temporary_ space (/tmp, /var/tmp, directory pointed by $TMPDIR...) -- Andrew W. Nosenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdelta 1.1.4 issues
Isaac Grover wrote: Good evening from Wisconsin, Good morning from Kent This post is regarding the xdelta-1.1.3 port included in FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Please direct me to the proper mailing list if this is not where I should be posting. No -- this is the correct mailing list for discussing all things ports related. You might want to try contacting the port maintainer though -- to find the maintainer: % cd /usr/ports/misc/xdelta % make maintainer I am attempting to use xdelta on tar files currently just over 8.2GB. My syntax to get the delta is xdelta delta oldtarfile newtarfile patchfile according to the man page. When the patchfile has been created, it is around 5.3MB in size. To verify the patchfile, using xdelta patch patchfile oldtarfile newtarfiletest yield a newtarfiletest of 465MB. Available space shouldn't be an issue, as I have 22GB available on this partition. Could anyone here provide some insight as to why this xdelta port isn't functioning as advertised? One possibility is that this is related to the size of the files you're dealing with. Does xdelta function correctly for smaller tarballs? Is this on a 32 or a 64 bit system? Could you try the misc/xdelta3 port which contains version 3.0t -- a late beta test version but pretty stable? If this is a problem that you need a fast work-around to, check out http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ -- written by the chap who is currently FreeBSD security officer, and part of the base system in FreeBSD. See bsdiff(1) and bspatch(1). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
