On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:02:01PM -0500, Nathan Jones 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
I did these steps, I guess I have to wait for tomorrow to see if it works :) Btw, already noticed a little problem not related to delta, but I don't know what causes it : $ sudo pacman -Sy --debug | grep mtime [23:10:46] debug: sync: new mtime for deltatest: 20071107230659 [23:10:46] debug: mtimes are identical, skipping testing.db.tar.gz $ sudo pacman -Sy --debug | grep mtime [23:10:49] debug: sync: new mtime for deltatest: 20071107230702 [23:10:49] debug: mtimes are identical, skipping testing.db.tar.gz That is, I get a different mtime from your server on every -Sy. Other mirrors work fine, using ftp or http. Not sure what is in fault here.