[pacman-dev] pacman/xdelta using XferCommand

[Dale Ogilvie]

Hello,

see my post on the forum 
(http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=238317#p238317)

Any chance that this "low-engineering" approach to implementing an xdelta 
solution could fly for arch, at least in the short term? This solution 
involves:

1. modified makepkg (see 
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=235654#p235654)
2. packagers having pkgver-1 in the makepkg build dir to create the delta
3. end-user implementing XferCommand with a custom xdelta aware script

If this works well for some users, a full c-code solution in pacman could be 
rolled out further down the track.

Thoughts? I see that archlinux.org and the mirrors have been experiencing 
some "bandwidth" issues after the python 2.5 release that perhaps underline 
the need for something like this in arch.

Dale