From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 16:33:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2404716A402 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:33:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0CA13C44C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:33:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2EGXXe6076694; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l2EGXWdC076671; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:33:32 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Vince Message-ID: <20070314163332.GB46558@thought.org> References: <20070314155326.GA23363@thought.org> <45F820B0.8030204@unsane.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F820B0.8030204@unsane.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: binary patches? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:33:28 -0000 On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:20:00PM +0000, Vince wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Regarding most (or many) of the port changes--say, upgrading > > foo-2.1.9_5 to foo-2.1.9_6, if the upgrade could be done by > > downloading a binary diff file, could the resulting > > /usr/local/bin/foo-2.1.9_6 be achieved by downloading a > > relatively small binary patch? Seems to me that smaller scale > > upgrades could be done this way in preference to re-compiling > > ports or downloading entire pacakes. --Same would go for any > > dependencies. > > > > Why is this a bad idea! > > > > gary > portsnap works on this basis as does freebsd-update, see > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ > I can imagine it could get horribly complex, but using > http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ i guess its potentially possible. > Colin Percival would be a good person to talk to if you're thinking of > implementing this, since he wrote the tools referenced above. I'm just starting to use portsnap over cvsup ports*; looking for better docs on keeping (reasonably) current. Thanks for the URL's. --This could get severely complicated if there were no ground rules. OTOH, there's got to be a better way. --Well, hopefully! gary > > > Vince -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix