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Re: missing 64bit ports (xdelta3 vs xdelta and pristine-tar)
- From: jari <jari dot aalto at cante dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 11:11:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: missing 64bit ports (xdelta3 vs xdelta and pristine-tar)
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On 2015-07-17 20:17, Achim Gratz wrote:
| jari writes:
| > All good, provided that:
| >
| > xdelta1 => /usr/bin/xdelta (the original)
| > xdelta3 => /usr/bin/xdelta3
|
| Why? The most current version of pristine-tar from git includes a commit
| that gets rid of the hardcoded command names.
Could you point me to it. Joey's attic Git?
| Given that it's pristine-tar that holds onto an earlier version of
| xdelta, I don't see why other users of xdelta expecting to get the
| latest version should be suffering from that.
The official setup in Debian:
xdelta: /usr/bin/xdelta (version 1.1.3)
xdelta3: /usr/bin/xdelta3
I think we should ensure compatibility between operating systems by
having similar setup.
Jari