64610 – Use ketchup for kernelupdates

Bug 64610 - Use ketchup for kernelupdates

Summary: Use ketchup for kernelupdates

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1184

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

URL:	http://www.selenic.com/ketchup/
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Reported:	2004-09-19 02:46 UTC by Florian Steinel
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Florian Steinel 2004-09-19 02:46:25 UTC

When updating from linux 2.6.7 to 2.6.8, emerge downloads full sources, with ketchup it would only download the patches necessary. I think it would be easy for an python programmer to add an check for patch size and determind the best strategy for patch bytesize vs. linux bytesize.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-19 15:08:50 UTC

we would implement a generic xdelta kind of thing ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1184 ***