mmacleod@... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am interested in proposing picking up where GLEP 9 and GLEP 25 left 
> off and finally getting difference patches for portage distfiles working 
> properly and implemented in such a way that they can become part of the 
> official tree.
> The proposal would address actual implementation of the above as well as 
> modifying the various other tools that must use them such as 
> "distfiles-clean" and portage itself of course.
> 
> 
> Would this be worth proposing? I know that I am not the only one who 
> would be very happy to finally see this make its way properly into Gentoo.
> Which source repository should I submit a patch for if I want to propose 
> this?

I just re-read the GLEPs. The first thing that comes to my mind is: Is 
there still a big use case for smaller downloads with the advance of 
broadband internet? However, I accept that not everyone has alot of 
bandwidth available to them and ignore my initial reaction ;)

There is a utility created by Brian Ferring (former Gentoo dev, author 
of GLEP 25) called dev-util/diffball that is used by infra to create the 
portage daily snapshot patches. 
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/deltas/

Can you elaborate on where you envision this idea going? and perhaps 
some implementation (high level) details that you are interested in 
pursuing?

Thanks,
Jeremy