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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:22:06AM +0200, Henti Smith wrote: > On Tue, 01 |
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Oct 2002 23:09:14 +0000 > Leon Chiver <leon@××××××.ro> wrote: > > > I've |
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installed gentoo and I must say that I'm very pleased whith it. > > |
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Marvelous job. > > But there's still one feature I'm missing and which |
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regards the update > > procedure: wouldn't it be nice if we could upgrade |
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from one version of a > > package to another by only downloading the diff? |
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A few days before I've > > installed mozilla-1.0, today I emerged 1.0.1. |
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But I had to download the > > entire 1.0.1 archive, instead of only a diff |
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file. For people with a > > limited internet access this would be a really |
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great feature. > > Does anyone know, is such an improvement planned? > > I |
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had a look on the bugzilla page and did a few searches .. didn't se |
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anything that pertains to this, but I have to admit .. > In the image of |
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gentoo this should have been in portage already. > > being able to update |
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packages just with patches would be really nice for us low bandwidth users |
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.. > |
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There was a thread about why the kernel stuff isn't done that way. It was |
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discussed that it is very hard to allow for people that sit at very |
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different kernel versions to be able to upgrade with one ebuild. Yes, one |
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can do all the checks to see what is needed to go from 2.4.x to 2.4.19 (or |
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even 2.2.x to 2.4.19) and just fetch the right diff, but that is much more |
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difficult than "get latest source, unpack into /usr/src and patch". |
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There is nothing stopping anyone from creating thes ebuild themselves and |
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posting them on the web say "diff2.4.16to2.4.19.ebuild" and giving people |
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the ability to use them , even if they don't get commited. |
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Back to Mozilla, mozilla is a less complicated beast. If someone has a |
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diff, then numberous ebuilds can be created to cover all the bases, or |
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build the logic into one ebuild. Maybe email the maintainer to ask "why |
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not" and if he says "because", then write one yourself ;) |
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Evan Read |
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http://eread.freeshell.org |
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do." |
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