electron-builder fix: github private repo differential updates

Following the issues discussed in #6184

Aug 27 '21 19:08 NGrey5

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Aug 27 '21 19:08 changeset-bot[bot]

If anyone wants to try and help figure out the checksum issue; I would appreciate it!

I haven't been able to figure out anything that solves it.

Oct 01 '21 17:10 NGrey5

I have developed a better delta update mechanism based on binary diffing for the NSIS target. It's being deployed in production with thousands of users and running smoothly.

The delta update mechanism based on the blockmap approach uses a very good amount of bandwidth. The binary diffing approach works better and downloads only the diff, generally less than 1MB to update the app.

Oct 27 '21 14:10 sandeep1995

@sandeep1995 would you be willing to contribute that logic to electron-builder? Or share the logic via gist or sample electron-quick-start repo?

Nov 09 '21 18:11 mmaietta

I don't understand why the private repo SHA512 can't match. Maybe there is a problem with the latest file and blockmap file in the process of building

Jan 21 '22 09:01 YouLiLiao

@NGrey5 Were you able to figure out the solution for private GitHub repos?

Jan 29 '22 09:01 Supriy-codeBreaker

@Supriy-codeBreaker I haven't made any further progress on this due to the checksum mismatch error. I'm awaiting someone with a little more knowledge of this to possibly help out.

Jan 31 '22 15:01 NGrey5

As I mentioned earlier here https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/pull/6198#issuecomment-952963668

If you guys are looking for a true delta builder and updater, please checkout https://github.com/electron-delta/electron-delta and https://electrondelta.com/

Apr 26 '22 21:04 sandeep1995

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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