Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

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

The xdelta is on the compressed tarball. Original.tar.bz2 + xdelta.bz2 =
New.tar.bz2. The md5 of the New.tar.bz2 should be identical to the
actual one downloaded from the proper server. There's no need to change
the md5 stuff.

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 23:51, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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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