Re: Binary patching .deb files
* Daniel Burrows (dburrows@debian.org) [040905 03:10]:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 07:25 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > 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.
> Yeah, that's what I meant. Shoulda been clearer. Basically, there are a
> whole raft of practical problems in terms of which and how many diffs to keep
> around. You have the same problems with Packages files (I think people suggest
> distributing patches to Packages even more often).
I think partially debs are quite interessting for the stable security
updates (and I think, it's quite obvious to keep all diffs to the
offical stable version around, as there are not too many updates).
Also, I would like much more if the "partitiell deb" (pdeb) contains
not a "binary diff", but just the new files (and the control section,
and a list of removed files, if any; perhaps this list also as part of
the control section?). This has the further advantage that the pdeb
can be installed even if the old deb is not around any more - it's
enough if the old deb is unpackaged in the system. However,
disadvantage is that this needs changes in dpkg.
Cheers,
Andi
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