Bug 24433

Summary:	packages should use incremental patches ...
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ronald Hummelink <ronald>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	avuton, genbugs, m.debruijne, sanchan, seemant, ULMO
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://glep.gentoo.org/glep-0025.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ronald Hummelink 2003-07-14 00:52:39 UTC

Releases of the linux beta kernel will be rather frequent for quite a while, if
I want to keep a little up to date this and help out testing it will even on
broadband adsl mean a good 10 minute (32MB) download every single time from the
kernel master archives (since most of the time mirrors won't have caught up).
This is really not a good practice. Therefore the development sources should see
whether there is a somewhat recent full tree available in distfiles and download
incremental patches from there.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
Ebuild should use incremental patches instead of downloading complete tarballs
every minor release

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-14 01:36:28 UTC

we have added deltup into portage tree cause not every package supplies patches/diffs

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-28 10:41:42 UTC

*** Bug 36657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-08-02 20:32:46 UTC

*** Bug 57407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-27 22:57:33 UTC

See glep25...

Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 14:51:48 UTC

*** Bug 88535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***