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On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 05:02, Bart Van Kerkhove wrote: |
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> I have been reading http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53406 with |
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> great interest. The thread started in may, the GLEP was written in July, |
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> I guess the project just misses "critical mass" to lift of... |
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More so the developer split, that and a couple of outstanding technical |
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issues. Pretty much deltup is developmentally dead, and the patch |
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repository that it used is quite out of date. |
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As it stands, deltup I'd like to get out of the tree as soon as |
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possible- I've already added a warning to the existing ebuild to this |
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effect. |
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> I think it's a really great program that would reduce download sizes |
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> immensely. This is not only good for dial-up users but also for the |
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> download mirrors. |
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Well, it's a double edged sword- it reduces bandwidth usage (if the user |
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isn't wiping their DISTDIR often), but it increases the mirror size- the |
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latter seems to be one of the stickier points of getting patching |
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support implemented. |
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> > Am I completely mistaken or has there been a patch for portage once that |
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> > did make use of delta updates? I believe to remember I've read something |
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> > about it on gentoo-dev a while ago. Anyone out there who can remember |
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> > thins better than I do? |
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Deltup's only tweaks to portage was the addition of dtu.list.aux (if I |
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recall the filename correctly) to profiles/, and setting FETCHCOMMAND to |
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call deltup prior to the normal fetchcommand- akin to how distcc/ccache |
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are called w/ the normal gcc command passed as an arguement. |
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~brian |
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