[pacman-dev] delta support in libalpm

[Xavier]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brendan Hide
<brendan at swiftspirit.co.za> wrote:
> Xavier wrote:
>>
>> how Garns answered to them:
>> ...
>> For Arch this would mean creating deltas on Gerolde, which seems to
>> be fairly strained already.
>> ...
>> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-November/007672.htm
>
> Is Gerolde separate from the server that serves the FTP and HTTP traffic? If
> it is
> separate then I can't argue for the delta's improvement on the server's
> performance.
> If it *is* the same server then Garn's argument is illogical.
>
> What else is Gerolde doing for Arch and can it be moved to another server?
>

This is not the only problem. Another big problem is that it would
require real interest and work from official developers, and this is
clearly inexistent :)
For example, dbscripts would require some work as well
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=tree

If these two problems can be fixed, we still have some technical
issues about how adding deltas to a database with repo-add should
work.