From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17288 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Jul 2003 09:18:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19224 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2003 09:18:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:14:24 -0500 From: bdharring In-reply-to: <20030728220925.12596.qmail@linuxmail.org> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: John Whitney Message-id: <0BC06F53-C1A5-11D7-9B6C-00306580AC5C@wisc.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system X-Archives-Salt: 89e3a488-edfd-451d-8bf4-971548c86889 X-Archives-Hash: f99ec1d15332298b4d680e09f9682b58 On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 05:09 PM, John Whitney wrote: > All this project needs is the green light. Isn't it about time we > make Gentoo more available to the bandwidth deprived? Taking a quick look at deltup-0.4 (most recent available via sourceforge), it is still reliant on having an older version of bzip2 installed to handle cases where the target distfile was compressed w/ the older version of bzip2. That strikes me as side stepping the problem- say down the line, either the bzip2 or gzip implementation was tweaked again to produce a slightly better compression, you'd run into the same problem again of maintaining md5 correctness. As I had mentioned in the past on this ml, I'd think some solution allowing for an md5 checksum of the data rather then the compressed form of said data would be a better solution. On the plus side, it could be extended to allow the user better control over what compression is used on their distfiles, but that's ancillary to the problem I mentioned above. Other then that point of contention, kudos on bdelta's performance. ~bdh > ---JJW > -- > ______________________________________________ > http://www.linuxmail.org/ > Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr > > Powered by Outblaze > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list