From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 20:16:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A9C16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:16:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517B643D41 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:16:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j31KGkrs002729; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:16:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050401152805.GA4564@dan.emsphone.com> References: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <20050401134347.GA6676@Pandora.MHoerich.de> <20050401152805.GA4564@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:16:45 -0500 To: Dan Nelson , Colin Percival From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.2 cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:16:52 -0000 At 9:28 AM -0600 4/1/05, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Apr 01), Mario Hoerich said: >> # Robert Watson: >> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Colin Percival wrote: >> > > I'd like to add bsdiff/bspatch into the base system. >> [...] >> > I think this would be a useful addition. >> [...] >> >> Not that it's important, but the names probably aren't the best >> possible choice, as 'bsdiff' seems to suggest 'BSD licensed diff'. >> (See bsdtar.) > >Yes, that's what I assumed this thread was about for the first >couple posts. bdiff/bpatch sound like better names. What's the >'s' stand for? I was also confused by the names at first. How about just 'bindiff' and 'binpatch'? These do sound like useful utilities to add, now that I understand what they are... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu