Re: wrong xdeltas for libtool

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 12 Apr 2004, at 23:27, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 16:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > The xdelta generation for libtool is severely broken!  Using xdelta
> > > version 1.1.3 with
> > >
> > >  xdelta delta libtool-1.5.4.tar.gz libtool-1.5.6.tar.gz 
> > > libtool.xdelta
> > >
> > > I get a file which is 7KByte big, not 2.4MByte!
> > We pass --pristine to turn off the gzip decompression, don't know why,
> > but we do :-)

I think the original intention was to avoid recompressing the delta 
between the
compressed tarballs... I just followed Gord's original convention 
without thinking
it through :-/

> > You're deltafying the actual tar files, we're deltafying the tar.gz
> > file.
>
> We need to change this or stop doing xdeltas altogether. They are 
> almost the same size as the distribution.

Agreed.  Running xdelta over the uncompressed tarballs makes more 
sense.  Feel
free to twiddle the delta-xdelta rule in Makefile.maint :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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