Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:03:45 +0300 From: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> To: "Isaac Grover" <isaac.grover@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdelta 1.1.4 issues Message-ID: <6161f3180808150603u7a290cb1m9fe832b7803d0e4a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bf7af5e50808141945l7445c258g624f1a4eab46a75b@mail.gmail.com> References: <bf7af5e50808141945l7445c258g624f1a4eab46a75b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Isaac Grover <isaac.grover@gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening from Wisconsin, > > This post is regarding the xdelta-1.1.3 port included in FreeBSD > 6.2-RELEASE. Please direct me to the proper mailing list if this is > not where I should be posting. > > I am attempting to use xdelta on tar files currently just over 8.2GB. > My syntax to get the delta is "xdelta delta oldtarfile newtarfile > patchfile" according to the man page. When the patchfile has been > created, it is around 5.3MB in size. To verify the patchfile, using > "xdelta patch patchfile oldtarfile newtarfiletest" yield a > newtarfiletest of 465MB. Available space shouldn't be an issue, as I > have 22GB available on this partition. Not about xdelta itself but about space-related problems: sometime an space-related failures goes from not enough _temporary_ space (/tmp, /var/tmp, directory pointed by $TMPDIR...) -- Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>
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