If the delta is almost as big as the regular package, it makes little sense to provide a delta
In fact it makes no sense. If the total deltas are greater than 70% of the package size, pacman will download the package.
]]>karol wrote:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deltup
Seems we have a delta repo :-)Thx Karol for the info, but unfortunately it's seem not all package have delta. Just curious
If the delta is almost as big as the regular package, it makes little sense to provide a delta, but it's just a guess and you have to contact the maintainers to get a definite answer.
]]>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deltup
Seems we have a delta repo :-)
Thx Karol for the info, but unfortunately it's seem not all package have delta. Just curious
]]>i wonder why it doesnt get more attention... it should be standard! i came to arch because the easy and really fast installing/updating, delta would make this LIGHTNING-fast! i think in fedora and opensuse its already standard. just ubuntu seems to take more time...
so the problem at the moment is the few support it gets?
Patches welcome.
Both Fedora and opensuse have a couple more devs I think :-)
Many people have fast enough internet connection so they don't care.
Oh, and I'm not sure if deltas would make things faster: I think you need to create the packages locally (from previous version + deltas) in order to install them, so for people with slow cpus and fast internet connection it would mean the updates would actually be slower.
]]>There is this bugreport. So far it only has my vote and probably the reporter's. I wouldn't feel motivated to implement something with that little interest on the bugtracker either...
]]>I personally haven't been using the delta repositories for a while now.. but wondering if there are people who are still interested in archdelta.net.
Don't you have any kind of stats, e.g. how much bandwidth did the project use per month?
]]>Ayways, a year is almost up. I personally haven't been using the delta repositories for a while now.. but wondering if there are people who are still interested in archdelta.net.
Has anyone mirrored or improved on the code? I've been pretty MIA when it came to maintaining this project (just did enough to keep the site going).. wondering if anyone picked this idea up.
Anyone want to take over this project? I'm sure there are a lot of people who can do a better job than me at maintaining this.
]]>I've been syncing it manually every time I needed it, I'll add it to cron if people actually need/want it.
/me needs
]]>http://delta.mts.ms/ doesnt seem to work:
Yeah, I'll have to get this back up.