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