On 27/06/11 21:11, James Westby wrote:
> This looks ok to me. Is lzma supported by dak yet?
I don't think it is yet, but it (still) seems like it will be in the
near future.
>
> I'm not sure about the delta questions, storing the full delta is certainly painful,
> but if this is supported in dak then we'll have to support it in bzr-builddeb soon,
> and that is certainly an easy way to do it.
>
> It's also something we could transition away from easily given that newer pristine-tar
> will still deal with the full-size deltas.
>
> My only pause is that as you say an openoffice.tar.xz would be painful, and large
> packages are the ones most likely to use lzma.
>
I'll see if I can spend some time adding lzma support to pristine-tar.
Hi James
On 27/06/11 21:11, James Westby wrote:
> This looks ok to me. Is lzma supported by dak yet?
I don't think it is yet, but it (still) seems like it will be in the
near future.
>
> I'm not sure about the delta questions, storing the full delta is certainly painful,
> but if this is supported in dak then we'll have to support it in bzr-builddeb soon,
> and that is certainly an easy way to do it.
>
> It's also something we could transition away from easily given that newer pristine-tar
> will still deal with the full-size deltas.
>
> My only pause is that as you say an openoffice.tar.xz would be painful, and large
> packages are the ones most likely to use lzma.
>
I'll see if I can spend some time adding lzma support to pristine-tar.
Cheers,
Jelmer