[Xav, sorry for my direct reply.]
I generated deltas for the last 20 updates on my system. The total delta size is 12M, while the total package size is 73M. So the overall ratio is pretty good imo. Afaik, only one delta on the 20 didn't reach the 0.7 ratio : attr The ghostscript one is unbelievable : 5,7K vs 29M !
Here are the packages, deltas and their size :
Well, these results are cool. If deltas finally work perfectly in alpm we may want to factorize (move) it to a stand-alone xdelta client-server(?) stuff, which is something similar to rsync (but we need a vcs-like stuff here). Well, I know this idea is very ambitious, but I have the impression that we (== Nathan and Xavier:) did something, from which the whole open source community could profit. (Moreover, our alpm code would be cleaner :) At least I didn't find anything which is similar to our low-bandwidth delta-based "vcs system" on the net. Bye P.S: This is of course an utopian idea. :) ------------------------------------------------------ SZTE Egyetemi Konyvtar - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This message was sent using IMP: http://horde.org/imp/