Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

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

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:38, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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

I was worried that any xdelta's made in this fashion would not have been 
tested ?
It may be invalid but if the xdelta has a possibility of failing it should be 
tested first, and it would also need to be gpg signed I guess as integrating 
md5's for them would be pretty hard.
I might be too picky though.
Hamish
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