On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:41:10PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> > So, i think if there .diff's exist, maybe apt-get can patch the
> > Changes into the files on the client, or a small wrapper arround
> > apt-get can do this..
> Goodness, you are the second person to ask for this in a month. Diff is not
> suitable since there are many versions the file could be diffed against. You
> need rsync, anoncvs, or similar.
No, you don't. We've done the maths, incremental --ed style diffs are
the way to do this: they make for by far the smallest download, and
minimal archive bloat.
Cheers,
aj
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