Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:49:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Isaac Grover <isaac.grover@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdelta 1.1.4 issues Message-ID: <48A518D0.3000901@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <bf7af5e50808141945l7445c258g624f1a4eab46a75b@mail.gmail.com> References: <bf7af5e50808141945l7445c258g624f1a4eab46a75b@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig31403B59818BBE62326DD96E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Isaac Grover wrote: > Good evening from Wisconsin, Good morning from Kent =20 > This post is regarding the xdelta-1.1.3 port included in FreeBSD > 6.2-RELEASE. Please direct me to the proper mailing list if this is > not where I should be posting. No -- this is the correct mailing list for discussing all things ports related. You might want to try contacting the port maintainer though -- to find the maintainer: % cd /usr/ports/misc/xdelta % make maintainer > I am attempting to use xdelta on tar files currently just over 8.2GB. > My syntax to get the delta is "xdelta delta oldtarfile newtarfile > patchfile" according to the man page. When the patchfile has been > created, it is around 5.3MB in size. To verify the patchfile, using > "xdelta patch patchfile oldtarfile newtarfiletest" yield a > newtarfiletest of 465MB. Available space shouldn't be an issue, as I > have 22GB available on this partition. > Could anyone here provide some insight as to why this xdelta port > isn't functioning as advertised? One possibility is that this is related to the size of the files you're dealing with. Does xdelta function correctly for smaller tarballs? Is this on a 32 or a 64 bit system? Could you try the misc/xdelta3 port which contains version 3.0t --=20 a late beta test version but pretty stable? If this is a problem that you need a fast work-around to, check out http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ -- written by the chap who is=20 currently FreeBSD security officer, and part of the base system in FreeBSD. See bsdiff(1) and bspatch(1). Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig31403B59818BBE62326DD96E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkilGNcACgkQ8Mjk52CukIz8ggCeOG7GnXeYs146wAwAjON5ZSa6 DD8AoJNPIQbfLaWmBZXgP79ZM5imkPaN =+7LN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig31403B59818BBE62326DD96E--
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