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On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 05:09 PM, John Whitney wrote: |
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> All this project needs is the green light. Isn't it about time we |
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> make Gentoo more available to the bandwidth deprived? |
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Taking a quick look at deltup-0.4 (most recent available via |
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sourceforge), it is still reliant on having an older version of bzip2 |
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installed to handle cases where the target distfile was compressed w/ |
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the older version of bzip2. That strikes me as side stepping the |
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problem- say down the line, either the bzip2 or gzip implementation was |
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tweaked again to produce a slightly better compression, you'd run into |
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the same problem again of maintaining md5 correctness. |
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As I had mentioned in the past on this ml, I'd think some solution |
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allowing for an md5 checksum of the data rather then the compressed |
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form of said data would be a better solution. On the plus side, it |
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could be extended to allow the user better control over what |
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compression is used on their distfiles, but that's ancillary to the |
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problem I mentioned above. |
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Other then that point of contention, kudos on bdelta's performance. |
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~bdh |
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> ---JJW |
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