On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brendan Hide <brendan@swiftspirit.co.za> wrote:
Xavier wrote:
how Garns answered to them: ... For Arch this would mean creating deltas on Gerolde, which seems to be fairly strained already. ... http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-November/007672.htm
Is Gerolde separate from the server that serves the FTP and HTTP traffic? If it is separate then I can't argue for the delta's improvement on the server's performance. If it *is* the same server then Garn's argument is illogical.
What else is Gerolde doing for Arch and can it be moved to another server?
This is not the only problem. Another big problem is that it would require real interest and work from official developers, and this is clearly inexistent :) For example, dbscripts would require some work as well http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=tree If these two problems can be fixed, we still have some technical issues about how adding deltas to a database with repo-add should work.