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Re: Does XDELTA allow patch upgrade?



On Aug 05, Rainer Dorsch decided to present us with:
> 
> I found this morning a "binary diff" called XDELTA on freshmeat:
> 
> 	http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
> 
> Having this, I think it is worth to think of a new upgrade path for small 
> bandwidth computers.
> 
> I suggest the following:

Yes, neat, but the first thing that comes to mind is a better
source package... if we have a packagename_version.xdelta.gz
instead of .diff.gz we can change binary files like images.
Would have been handy when I was trying to package Enlightenment
about an year ago.

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