Re: Differentaial deb packages (debiff)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> I personally think that this is an excellent idea that should be implemented in dpkg. I
> realize that it is not being done with the main distribution to allow mirrors to save disk
> space. However, adding this capability would allow other groups (e.g. Helixcode) to
> offer differential updates if they wanted. So why not add it?
<sarcasm>
I just took 10 minutes, and added this feature to dpkg(as well as dpkg-dev),
dinstall(dak), and apt. You can expect to start seeing a new file on the
mirrors, called .debiff.
</sarcasm>
I see no reason for this to be in base-line dpkg. If these other locations
want to have this feature, then why can't these other locations develop the
infrastructure to support it?
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