Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

["Micah Makaiwi" <micahgeek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/3/06, Edward Dunagin <edunagin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> it seems to be a foggy friday<g>
>
> On 3/3/06, Peter Buschbacher <shabbadu@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Am Fr März 3 2006 19:39 schrieb Edward Dunagin:
> > > tell me please, is a delta.iso used like a kernel patch?
> > > is it applied to the present cd.iso of what? ie is it to be
> > > applied to beta5 cd's or beta6 cd's?
>
>
> *******************snip**************************
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> > shabbadu@linux:~]$ applydeltaiso -h
> > usage: applydeltaiso <oldiso> <deltaiso> <newiso>
> >
> > maybe it gets more clear with a script I used from beta2 to beta3
> > chao
> > Peter
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > #apply all 5 delta isos
> >
> > ###CONFIGURATION###
> >
> > # /DIRECTORY no ending/ !
> > OLDDIR=/media/LACIE/opensuse/b2-iso
> > DELTADIR=/media/LACIE/opensuse/delta_b2_b3
> > NEWDIR=/media/LACIE/opensuse/iso/10.1_b3
> >
> > # e.g. OLDVERS=Beta2
> > OLDVERS=Beta2
> > NEWVERS=Beta3
> >
> > ###CONFIGURATION###
> >
> > for i in 1 2 3 4 5
> > do
> >   applydeltaiso $OLDDIR/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-$OLDVERS-CD$i.iso
> > $DELTADIR/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-$OLDVERS\_$NEWVERS-CD$i.delta.iso
> > $NEWDIR/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-$NEWVERS-CD$i.iso
> > done
>
>
> i still have a beta4 iso that i download(5cd's)  i also downloaded
> betat6(5cd's). i noted there are iso's for beta6 called delta.iso's.
>
> what is the purpose of the delta.iso's?
>
> i still would like to know.............cheers............ed
>
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> --
> Edward Dunagin-Dunigan
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>
The delta iso's are iso files that contain deltas for each file on the cd. A
delta is the equivalent of a diff or patch file except they are in a
human-unreadable binary format that is much smaller than a pach or diff
file.

Micah

BTW. I have a Windows applydeltaiso.exe I made with cygwin. Do you guys want
this?