Re: Binary patching .deb files
Hi,
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 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.
>
Are you sure?
The situation:
1) I bought a release on CD-ROMs
2) At home I have only an analog modem line
3) A new revision -> update
Any other questions?
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Best regards,
Milan Jurik
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