On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 07:07:13PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2004 06:56 pm, Pedro Côrte-Real wrote: > > I've created a few scripts to do binary patching between two different > > versions of the same package. > > I did this back in 2000 or so and several other people have done this since > then. You might want to look in the archives to read up on the practical > problems with putting this on the archive (which is the real issue since, as > you probably discovered, it takes about an afternoon or so to come up with > debdiff/debpatch scripts based on xdelta). Plus, even if you can get it into the archive, it's not all that useful. The user would need a copy of the previous .deb file. They might still have it, but there's a pretty good chance that they don't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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