Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:37:27PM -0700: >> On Fri, August 17, 2007 5:29 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >>> Tracy R Reed wrote: >>> >>>>> How would this work for a system that is under package management and >>>>> you have to revert the database that goes along with the packages? >>>> Seems to me that you would have to revert the whole entire system at >>>> once so that the binaries from the installed packages and the db go >>>> together. >>> Yes. If someone could do something clever with merging, I haven't >>> figured it out yet. >> No one has ever figured out how to meaningfully merge binary files, if >> that's what you mean. > > It would require a custom merge program for every format. There is no > general solution. > > However, binary diffs are, um, different. They're just hard, not > impossible.
is xdelta any help? >.. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
