[pacman-dev] xdelta status

[Xavier]

On Feb 6, 2008 3:57 AM, Nathan Jones <nathanj at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Today I read a post[1] by Xavier about how deltas cannot currently be
> used. As I say in the thread, I will work on adding delta creation
> support to repo-add in the next week.
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be changed before this can actually
> be used?
>
> [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43426
>


Quoting Dan from the TODO thread :

> xdelta support in repo-add would probably be our next step- we may
> need to refactor the common code out of repo-add and makepkg into some
> kind of makepkg lib, which I am not completely sure how to address.