[gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9

[gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9

[Rafael Martins]

Hi all,

Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by
reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary
patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when
updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25.

The project is on schedule.

== Progress ==

Last week I got a basic Portage patch working, and I can finally
install packages from reconstructed tarballs. It needs some fine
graining and improvements, though.
I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by
portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the
package managers willing to implement distfile patching support.

== Next steps ==

Finish the Portage patch improvements and send the patch for review.
Finish distpatchq helper tool.
Create a package for the distpatch helper tools and publish it.

Best Regards,

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul     , Rafael Martins wrote:
> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by 
> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the 
> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support.

Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Admin, Summer of Code
Gentoo Linux and X.Org
Blog: http://dberkholz.com


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Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9

[Rafael Martins]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul     , Rafael Martins wrote:
>> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by
>> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the
>> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support.
>
> Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool?
>

Yes. Actually the Python API of the tools is usable by package
managers, but this won't work for paludis, I guess. I'm just
implementing Portage support for now, though.

On the other hand, I want to be able to change the internal API, if
needed. In this case, I need a helper tool or a stable public API will
be required. I picked the first to make the things easy for all the
package managers.

Best regards,

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9

[Rafael Martins]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Rafael Martins
<rafael@rafaelmartins.eng.br> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul     , Rafael Martins wrote:
>>> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by
>>> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the
>>> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support.
>>
>> Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool?
>>
>
> Yes. Actually the Python API of the tools is usable by package
> managers, but this won't work for paludis, I guess. I'm just
> implementing Portage support for now, though.
>
> On the other hand, I want to be able to change the internal API, if
> needed. In this case, I need a helper tool or a stable public API will
> be required. I picked the first to make the things easy for all the
> package managers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Rafael Goncalves Martins
> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
>

s/will be required//

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/