Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:03:03 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binup project Message-ID: <20030308180302.GA431@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030307134749.01d80ba8@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <200303061459.00436.michael@zend.com> <200303061459.00436.michael@zend.com> <5.0.2.1.1.20030307134749.01d80ba8@popserver.sfu.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2003.03.07 13:55:06 +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > >I don't think anybody are actively working on the project at the moment. > It's not intended to be as extensive as -binup, but I've got some binary > updates code designed for tracking the security branches; I announced an > earlier version here in late December, and I intend to have a new version > (with several bug fixes, and support for updating nocrypto, krb4, and krb5 > versions of files appropriately) ready by the time FreeBSD 4.8 is released. I remember looking at it and it looked very interesting. If I remember correctly on "only" deals with making/applying updated and not the distribution right? Perhaps your code could be put together with the simple HTTP protocol I was looking at to actually get a complete remote binary updater... It could be a start for a full binup. -- Simon L. Nielsen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ajBW8kocFXgPTRwRAqtGAJwNHnMmlIO7d2oRWX6l0zznODo4xACfdLIG Ng9voDGclIZ2ZJpdzbLt6uA= =U/yO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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