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Re: Binary patching .deb files



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.

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