Hi!
While this sounds indeed interesting, I think it's impractical for at
least the two reason below:
On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 09:26:24 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> AFAQ (Anticipated frequently asked questions):
>
> Q: How can you reconstruct a tarball from the installed system? Won't
>
Isn't there kind of a universal issue that tar and compression happen
sort of in the wrong order? Wouldn't it make more sense to make files
that were .gz.tar (ie. compress the files individually, then have an
index into them via tar.) Then tar works perfectly well for
extracting individual files
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:26:24AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've come to believe that binary diff packages are not the best way of
> solving this issue. Intead I'd like to propse a radically different
> solution to this issue.
>
> The gist of it: instead of adding a format
Hi there,
I've come to believe that binary diff packages are not the best way of
solving this issue. Intead I'd like to propse a radically different
solution to this issue.
The gist of it: instead of adding a format for how deltas work, I
propose to introduce a new format for storing Debian
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