[pacman-dev] delta support in libalpm

[Brendan Hide]

Xavier Wrote:
> So we don't even have extra decompression/recompression steps, there 
> is no loss.
>
> +                       snprintf(command, PATH_MAX, "xdelta3 -d -R -c
> -s %s %s | gzip -n > %s", from, delta, to);  
Sorry. I see the logic now only. :/ The md5s are originally generated 
after using "gzip -n" to do the compression and so Xavier is 
specifically using "gzip -n" to prevent generating a "different" md5sum 
after applying the delta.

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