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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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sorcery has always optionally supported xdelta. you must select it's use in 
the feature menu and must also have xdelta installed.
How to use it ? no-one in my almost two years has ever used it , to the best 
of my knowledge (I manually used an xdelta in one games spell, because I 
didn't want to wade through sorcery code and no-one in sorcery team had the 
time to help me). Read the source if you want.
I wouldn't consider adding redhats patches a good idea. We have no idea which 
of the other 30 patches those four might rely on. they might apply cleanly 
and even compile but after that we have no control.

As for the glibc snapshot sources I made a tarball of my checkout. while the 
spell is being triple checked by experienced guru's in the devel repo I am 
happy to serve this tarball, but when the spell goes live in test I will 
cahnge the URL to the sourcemage mirror.

Hamish

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:36, shivaken wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to say about kernel.
> As you say, to use nptl, you must use 2.6.x kernel and set CONFIG_FUTEX=y.
>
> For 2.4.x. I checked fedora's kernel SRPM. That contains..
> --
> Patch10: linux-2.4.22-ac1-nptl-A1.patch
> Patch11: linux-2.4.20-x86-syscalls.patch
> Patch12: linux-2.4.22-ac1-scheduler-update.patch
> Patch13: linux-2.4.22-futex-fix.patch
> --
> How about using these patches?
>
> > A day or two and it will be available in devel, a few good reports and I
> > will integrate it into test.
>
> That spell uses xdelta now. I want sorcery to be added a function to use
> xdelta. glibc-2.3.2-20031203.tar.xdelta is applied at PRE_BUILD. But, that
> is a little hack. So, that dosen't remove created glibc-20031203.tar file.
> That is not enough.
>
> To be the best source based distribution, xdelta will be a key
> to reduce trancefaring data. Some distributor (ex. kde.org) uses xdelta
> now.
>
> Thanks.
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