[pacman-dev] Yum-presto like

[Allan McRae]

Ray Rashif wrote:
> Sorry for hijacking this a little.
>
> Is there documentation available on this? I'd like to exploit this feature
> with a personal repo (3 computers with slow connections use it); what should
> be done on the packaging/server side so that if the user enables UseDelta,
> it will work seamlessly with packages built with xdelta? That's as far as I
> understand this. There were discussions in the past but I never noticed how
> one would go about setting it up.

Not a lot....  but this should get you started.

 > pkgdelta --help
pkgdelta (pacman) 3.3.0

Usage: pkgdelta [-q] <package1> <package2>
    pkgdelta will create a delta file between two packages
This delta file can then be added to a database using repo-add.

Example:  pkgdelta pacman-3.0.0.pkg.tar.gz pacman-3.0.1.pkg.tar.gz