Re: debian binary diff system ?!
Tom Lees wrote:
> The best way to do it would be to unpack the data.tar.gz,
> and do an xdelta on the individual files. Also do a "diff" on the
> date/time/permissions/owner of the files. control.tar.gz is so small
> you might as well copy it verbatim.
That's not necessary. Xdelta recognises debian packages and manually unpacks
them prior to running binary diffs on them. The deltas between 2 versions of
a package seem to run to about 10% of the original package size using xdelta.
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