On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:10:22 +1100 Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > While hanging around lca07 it was mentioned how bandwidth hungry > Gentoo is. > > Given a lot of the world is still on dialup this could increase the > potential userbase for Gentoo. > > As such the project idea is Automated Xdelta Generation. > > principles: > no manual generation of xdeltas by gentoo devs > simple user usage (FEATURES=xdelta) > avoiding digesting problems > remain compatible with existing ebuilds > > user interface: > > FEATURES=xdelta emerge ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.20 > found /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 > fetching linux-2.6.19_xdelta_2.6.20.xdelta > generating linux-2.6.20.tar > digest /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.20.tar matches Problem: would need to store Manifest entries for uncompressed distfiles as well, not exactly a trivial change. Also portage would have to know about possible delta paths (how to get from .19 to .20), that needs a completely new support infrastructure Anyway, you want to talk with ferringb about this (and take a look at glep 25). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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