Re: binary patch

2003-11-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Oxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:50, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know exactly how > > efficiently it detects and compresses binary differences, but it > > definitely does it and not too bad. With rsync, you get both the

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:50:03AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > On 2003-11-05 17:37 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It has been suggested many times in the past to apply a similar idea to > > the .debs themselves, rather than their contents. > > But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:50, Martin Pitt wrote: > But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know exactly how > efficiently it detects and compresses binary differences, but it > definitely does it and not too bad. With rsync, you get both the easy > management of complete debs and the bandwidth

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! On 2003-11-05 17:37 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It has been suggested many times in the past to apply a similar idea to the > .debs themselves, rather than their contents. But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know exactly how efficiently it detects and compresses binary difference

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:52:53PM +, Anthraxz __ wrote: > When doing a package upgrade, I wondy if it should be possible to > implement a mecanism for patching binaries instead of replacing the new > one ? This could be usefull for use on a slow network connection. This would require calcula

binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Anthraxz __
When doing a package upgrade, I wondy if it should be possible to implement a mecanism for patching binaries instead of replacing the new one ? This could be usefull for use on a slow network connection. There exist somes tools for FreeBSD http://www.daemonology.net _