hi folks, i had a look at the patch above and have some suggestions and questions: - the "zcat" part should be done by the apt-internal method, using the library directly in the ed part or somewhere else spoils apt's design. as far as i can see this should be easy - the big question is how to implement the ed part. it would be most natural to make it a mathod as well, but i don't think this is reasonable as normal methods take one argument and prduce one file, where the ed part would need two arguments (the original and the patch) and produce one file. of course this could be coded into the url, but that's ugly. so should i just create a method that takes the two file(name)s and do the patch? perhaps some of the people who are closer to the design of apt could comment on the preferred way to take here... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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