[pacman-dev] Delta testing

[Xavier]

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.