On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> I have a tip/request for the mozilla and firefox packages (and maybe
> other big packages with frequent but minor releases).  
> 
> Every Firefox security update makes me download another 31 MB tarball,
> which is probably mostly identical to the previous one.  Could the
> pkgsrc devs create a diff between e.g. 1.0.3 and 1.0.4, checksum it,
> and just add these incremental diffs to the package distinfo file?
> Like e.g. the Vim package works (but this is done by the Vim
> developers themselves).  This will save pkgsrc users some time and
> bandwidth.  

I have created such a diff between Firefox 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 sources.
It's rather large (6706 Kb), but the diff consists mostly of changed
version tags (like the many CVS/Tag files).  This of course compresses
very well: 591 Kb left with gzip and 396 Kb with bzip2.  The latter is
1.2% the download size of the total 1.0.4 tarball (assuming you already
have 1.0.3 sources).  

The compressed diffs can be found in http://lori.mine.nu:5190/firefox/ 

GH

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