On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Would it be useful if I put xdelta3 into the repos to help testing things out for this?
Short answer : yes, I believe it would be nice to have xdelta3 in the repos Long answer : Well I did have something running, but I realized I have way too many problems and questions to go in a testing phase. I have no idea where this is going and where it should go. There has never been any real official interests for delta. This seems to make a requirement the ability to make a separate delta server. This seems to require a separate delta database. This implies a new level of complexity and code bloat in pacman. Now maybe it is worth it, I don't know, it still makes me wondering why we put all this delta stuff in pacman to begin with. What was the problem with XferCommand, it seemed like it was a great idea. Now that wget-xdelta.sh script is just a toy, but a much more powerful python script could be written that has basically the same logic as pacman currently has + the ability to fetch and parse a separate delta database.