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- 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
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[SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Hamish Greig, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Paul Mahon, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Hamish Greig, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Paul Mahon, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Jose Bernardo Silva, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Hamish Greig, 10/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Eric Sandall, 10/07/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Hamish Greig, 10/07/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Paul Mahon, 10/07/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Jose Bernardo Silva, 10/07/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Eric Sandall, 10/07/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Paul Mahon, 10/07/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Jose Bernardo Silva, 10/07/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Hamish Greig, 10/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Jose Bernardo Silva, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Paul Mahon, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Hamish Greig, 10/05/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem,
Paul Mahon, 10/05/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Robin Cook, 10/05/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] sustained/ basesystem, Jason Flatt, 10/05/2003
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