[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/5] repo-add : rework of delta support

[Allan McRae]

Brendan Hide wrote:
> Also on that note, other than this new code breaking the chain, how 
> would a chain be broken?

By someone choosing not to or forgetting to add a delta.  At the moment 
repo-add does not create deltas automatically, or at all... If it ever 
did create deltas, it would have to be through the use of a flag.   Same 
with file list generation (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11302).  Some 
people don't want their repo server dealing with the overhead.  (I had 
to add >150 packages to the repo in one go for an ncurses rebuild).

Allan