On 2011-07-04 21:32, Colin Percival wrote:
| > 2011-07-03 22:04 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc>:
| > | Package: bsdiff
| > | Version: 4.3-10
| > | Severity: wishlist
| > | Tags: patch
| > |
| > | bsdiff requires 17x the size of the old file in the initial phase which
| > | is something. This two patches try push it down to 8x. The limitation is
| > | that max old file size is 2GiB - 1. A diff of file of that size requires
| > | with patches 16GiB of extra memory (without 32GiB).
| > | Please find the patches attached including a proper description.
|
| > http://bugs.debian.org/632585
|
| I disapprove of using 'signed int' here since 'int' isn't always a
| consistent size. Either int32_t (if you want a 2GB limit) or ssize_t
| (if you want anything which will fit into RAM) is what you want.
|
| Aside from that these look reasonable; but I'm not going to commit them
| to the central bsdiff repo (aka. usr.bin/bsdiff in the FreeBSD src tree)
| because there's bigger issues I need to work on and I don't want to muck
| around with minor changes like this when I have a complete rewrite
| pending. But you can consider these changes "blessed" if that has any
| meaning for debian.
Hi Colin,
Any news about the new version you were working on? I can see the same 4.3 at
http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
Or could you point me to the VCS tree which can be used to package
latest code.
Thanks,
Jari
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