* Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system
@ 2003-07-29 9:14 99% ` bdharring
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From: bdharring @ 2003-07-29 9:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: John Whitney
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
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