I for one would like to see this fly. Someone just bumped OpenOffice up a notch, hello Mr 158M download... For me the xdeltas should just be created as far as possible "without maintainer intervention" and stored alongside the package. One could put a size saving threshold on the delta into makepkg, if the delta is over say 50% of the size of the total package, it doesn't get uploaded... Once pacman 3.1 gets into testing I'll look at the code again. I've been running pacman with wget-xdelta.sh for some time now, its sad to see messages like these flash by... Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from extra... --23:48:45-- ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/archlinux/extra/os/i686/k3b-1.0. 1-1_to_1.0.2-1-i686.delta => `k3b-1.0.1-1_to_1.0.2-1-i686.delta' Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... 61.8.0.17 Connecting to mirror.pacific.net.au|61.8.0.17|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /linux/archlinux/extra/os/i686 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR k3b-1.0.1-1_to_1.0.2-1-i686.delta ... No such file `k3b-1.0.1-1_to_1.0.2-1-i686.delta'. Dale O