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The idea of pdiffs is to avoid downloading the hole file by patching the
existing index. This works very well, but becomes slow if a lot of
patches needs to be applied to reconstruct an up-to-date index and in
recent years more and more dinstall (or similar) runs are executed
creating more and more pdiffs in the same amount of time, so pdiffs
became less useful.
The solution is simple: Reduce the amount of patches (which are very
small) which need to be applied on top of the index we have available
(which is usually pretty big).
This can be done in two ways: Either merge the patches on the
server-side so that the client has to download only one patch or the
patches are all downloaded and merged on the client-side.
The first needs a client who is doing one step at a time who can also
skip patches if it needs (APT supports this for a long time now).
The later is implemented by this commit, but depends on the server NOT
merging the patches and the patches being in a strict order in which no
patch is skipped.
This is traditionally the case for dak, but other repository creators
support merging – e.g. reprepro (which helpfully adds a flag indicating
that the patches are merged). To support both or even mixes a client
needs more information which isn't available for now.
This POC uses the external diffindex-rred included in apt-file to
do the heavy lifting of merging & applying all patches in one pass,
hence to test this feature apt-file needs to be installed.
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- check return of writev() as gcc recommends
* methods/mirror.cc:
- check return of chdir() as gcc recommends
* apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
- check return of write() a gcc recommends
* apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc:
- check return of chdir() as gcc recommends
* apt-inst/deb/dpkgdb.cc:
- check return of chdir() as gcc recommends
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ReadLine instead of accessing the files directly with fgets()
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- drop the explicit export of gz-compression handling
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to search for compressed silbings of the given filename and use this guessing
instead of hardcoding Gzip compression
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size are pretty unlikely for now, but we need it for deb
packages which could become bigger than 4GB now (LP: #815895)
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const and initial mostly Debug member values in the constructors
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- really detect bigendian machines by including config.h,
so we can really (Closes: #612986)
* apt-pkg/contrib/mmap.cc:
- Base has as 'valid' failure states 0 and -1 so add a simple
validData method to check for failure states
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- read patch into MMap only if we work on uncompressed patches
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- operate optional on gzip compressed pdiffs
* apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
- don't uncompress downloaded pdiff files before feeding it to rred
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- use the patchfile modification time instead of the one from the
"old" file - thanks to Philipp Weis for noticing! (Closes: #571541)
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* rewrite and refactor rred method to be able to handle even big (>30 MB)
patches (Closes: #554349) and hardening the method itself by using more
constants and a return value which can't be misinterpreted as linenumber
* Finally adope the patch from Morten Hustveit <morten@debian.org> to be
able to optional use mmaps and iovec to increase patch speed -
but as this increase memory usage we can always fall back to the "old"
method which doesn't depend on mmaps.
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Patch from Bernhard R. Link, thanks!
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make the QueueNextDiff() code more robust
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