Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system

From: Ceri Davies (ceri_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 03/31/05

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To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>

    On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:47:55PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
    > I'd like to add bsdiff/bspatch into the base system. I
    > initially wrote these as part of FreeBSD Update, but I'm now
    > also using them in portsnap, and bspatch has been part of the
    > OS X base system for most of the past year as a result of
    > being used by their patches.
    > My reason for wanting to add this is that portsnap is next
    > on my hit list, and I obviously need to get this done first.
    >
    > Any objections?

    While it's probably easy to guess from the names, can you explain what
    they are?

    Ceri 

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