From: Henti Smith <bain@reaper.org>
To: "Christian Skarby" <christian@skarby.no>
Cc: arutha@gmx.de, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage question
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:54:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021002135449.66b52d4c.bain@reaper.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33154.10.0.7.101.1033559619.squirrel@webmail.interhost.no>
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:53:39 +0200 (CEST)
"Christian Skarby" <christian@skarby.no> wrote:
> I kind of like the idea of this feature, but AFAIK are diffs most usefull
> when there are little difference from the source-files we already have.
> I.e. as soon as all the code is changed a diff-file will include both the
> old and the new source. If we implement this feature I think it would be
> nice to put some logic into it so that it can (f.ex. by looking at
> file-sizes) decide if one should download a patch or two or rather
> download the full source.
the whole point of a diff/patch file is to make only changes made to the source .. not carry the original ..
Henti Smith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 23:09 [gentoo-dev] portage question Leon Chiver
2002-10-02 7:22 ` Henti Smith
2002-10-02 7:39 ` Evan Read
2002-10-02 9:02 ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-10-02 9:12 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-10-02 12:28 ` Toby Dickenson
2002-10-02 12:34 ` Toby Dickenson
2002-10-02 10:06 ` Henti Smith
2002-10-02 11:53 ` Christian Skarby
2002-10-02 11:54 ` Henti Smith [this message]
2002-10-02 12:23 ` Christian Skarby
2002-10-02 12:26 ` Henti Smith
2002-10-02 14:12 ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-10-02 14:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Leon Chiver
2002-10-03 9:10 ` Paul de Vrieze
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-25 15:26 [gentoo-dev] Portage question Christopher Burgess
2001-08-25 15:36 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-08-25 14:57 Christopher Burgess
2001-08-25 15:06 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-08-25 15:20 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-08-25 15:32 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-08-27 8:48 ` Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-01-30 21:23 [gentoo-dev] useradd q Dave Bresson
2001-01-30 21:57 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-30 23:14 ` [gentoo-dev] portage question John McCaskey
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