Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

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

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 04:41, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 13:37:49 -0500, Paul Mahon wrote
>
> > The following spells use the rpm stuff in sorcery:
> > archive/cksfv
> > archive/rpmunpack
> > libs/newt
> > archive/zoo
> >
> > It would be really nice if we got automatic xdeta support for large
> > binaries. But I don't see that happening any time soon.
>
> Xdelta was one of the nice things of sorcery. Too bad we don't have it
> working.
>
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It would be nice to have it working yes but as i understand it the xdelta's 
have to be made and served ?
would our fallback_urls like to add xdelta diffs between versions ?
It would only help in the case of upgrades, not original installs.
I have only used xdelta twice, once in a spell i fixed and once to upgrade 
the 
original iso from sorcerer.
Having xdelta's for the ISO is a simple one time only thing with each new 
release but for all the 2000+ spells in the grimoire ?
Seems like a lot of work ?
Also those spells that use/need cpio and rpmunpack, would adding them to the 
DEPENDs solve that or can't cpio and rpmunpack be installed unless their 
tools are already in $PATH ?
Hamish
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