On Nov 7, 2007 4:02 PM, Nathan Jones <nathanj@insightbb.com> wrote:
I have created a repo for those you who may want to help test the xdelta code in pacman 3.1. There is just one package in the repo: deltatest. I will try to update the package at least once a day.
Steps for delta goodness:
1. Install pacman from git 2. Install xdelta: pacman -S xdelta 3. Add UseDelta to your pacman.conf 4. Add the deltatest server to pacman.conf:
[deltatest] Server = http://home.insightbb.com/~nathanj/dt
5. Install the package: pacman -Sy deltatest 6. Update the package whenever you want 7. Report many, many bugs
Awesome! I would be willing to turn my [pacman-git] repository into one with deltas as well (as I will probably rebuild this any time we check changes into master), should we try that? Nathan, can you give me pointers as to what exactly I need to do to get this done? Is it anything more than adding the xdelta option? Speaking of the xdelta option- can I add that to either makepkg.conf OR the package itself? I know some of our other options are like this, and it would be a cool feature to say "never use xdelta on this package" with options=(!xdelta). Or in this case, since I don't want to build all my packages with deltas, can I tell it to just build this one by using options=(xdelta)? -Dan