[gentoo-soc] Re: Distfile patching support - Weekly report #1

[Rafael Martins]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Rafael Martins
<rafael@×××××××××××××××××.br> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some of you guys may remember me from last year, when I was working
> with g-octave, or from my recent work as a Gentoo developer. This year
> I'm working in the "Distfile patching support" project. You can know
> more about it reading my proposal [1].
>
> This year I decided to stop posting weekly reports at my blog [2],
> because this kind of post is usually uninteresting and boring for most
> readers. All my reports will be here.
>
>
> == Progress ==
>
> - XZ support for diffball is done. Brian will likely merge it and
> release a new version soon. :)
> - Lineage identification algorithm is done and works fine when
> creating single hop sequential patches. Would need some minor
> improvements.
> - Script to create deltas for all available versions of a package
> (distdiffer) is almost done. I still need to implement the manifest
> generation. There's an example of the script running on verbose mode
> [3]. It works for more than 1 package, but can't generate the list of
> packages by himself. It needs to get the list of packages from the
> command-line arguments, from a file or from stdin.
> - Basic class to reconstruct the distfiles from deltas was created,
> mainly to be used in the validation of the generated deltas, but will
> be the base for the reconstructor script (distpatcher).
>
> The scripts and helper classes/modules are being written in Python,
> and a Git repository is available [4] (temporary, will be moved to
> gentoo-infra soon).
>
> That's all for now.
>
> Regards.
>
> [1] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~rafaelmartins/gsoc2011-proposal.txt
> [2] - http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
> [3] - http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/397361/
> [4] - https://github.com/rafaelmartins/distpatch/
>

Err... I forgot the plans for the next week, so here they are:

- Implement metadata generation for distdiffer.
- Implement metadata validation for the reconstructor base class
- Create a simple homepage for the project at Gentoo infrastructure.
- Migrate (or mirror) the Git repo to Gentoo infrastructure.

Regards,

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/