Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-grimoire - Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem

sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem
  • Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:38:40 -0700

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> 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

It should be easy to put a script up on download.sourcemage.org which runs via
cron once a day or so, checking for new files (including the iso) and
generating xdeltas for each file. Then our gracious mirrors could also run
this script on their machines, or just download the xdeltas as well.

Thoughts?

-sandalle

--
PGP Key Fingerprint: FCFF 26A1 BE21 08F4 BB91 FAED 1D7B 7D74 A8EF DD61
http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8EFDD61

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS/E/IT$ d-- s++:+>: a-- C++(+++) BL++++VIS>$ P+(++) L+++ E-(---) W++ N+@ o?
K? w++++>-- O M-@ V-- PS+(+++) PE(-) Y++(+) PGP++(+) t+() 5++ X(+) R+(++)
tv(--)b++(+++) DI+@ D++(+++) G>+++ e>+++ h---(++) r++ y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page