xdelta 1.1.4 issues
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Aug 15 05:49:19 UTC 2008
Isaac Grover wrote:
> Good evening from Wisconsin,
Good morning from Kent
> 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 --
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
currently FreeBSD security officer, and part of the base system
in FreeBSD. See bsdiff(1) and bspatch(1).
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
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