Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The problem with removing the prm stuff from the base system is that
they are used in the sorcery scripts. It would not be unwise to have the
use of programs hardcoded in which may not be installed.

As for Xdeltas, if they were automaticaly generated, we would still have
to add stuff to try to grab them first to sorcery. Would this stuff be
all of the sources, or just the main d/l?

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 22:23, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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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