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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:10:22 +1100 |
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Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o> wrote: |
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> While hanging around lca07 it was mentioned how bandwidth hungry |
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> Gentoo is. |
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> Given a lot of the world is still on dialup this could increase the |
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> potential userbase for Gentoo. |
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> As such the project idea is Automated Xdelta Generation. |
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> principles: |
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> no manual generation of xdeltas by gentoo devs |
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> simple user usage (FEATURES=xdelta) |
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> avoiding digesting problems |
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> remain compatible with existing ebuilds |
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> user interface: |
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> FEATURES=xdelta emerge ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.20 |
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> found /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 |
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> fetching linux-2.6.19_xdelta_2.6.20.xdelta |
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> generating linux-2.6.20.tar |
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> digest /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.20.tar matches |
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Problem: would need to store Manifest entries for uncompressed |
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distfiles as well, not exactly a trivial change. Also portage would |
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have to know about possible delta paths (how to get from .19 to .20), |
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that needs a completely new support infrastructure |
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Anyway, you want to talk with ferringb about this (and take a look at |
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glep 25). |
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Marius |
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