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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:37:39 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfqVgjstRhppD4j9SKLmMgL8W0dfWuqGGt7Ec4qk4AirhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:36 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 22:39, Rodney W. Grimes
> > <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > 4. There is no easy way to show
> > >    "changed byte at offset 0x432 from 0xef to 0xfe"
>
> How do we represent Copyright and License in such objects?
> This is an issue that is totally left out of even .uu version.
>

By indirect means. Usually an auxiliary file that describes permissions,
when we bother at all.

Warner


> > But this is not that easy with uuencoded files, either - I'd just end
> > up uudecoding both files before running cmp -x. And for the case under
> > discussion here (firmware files) we treat them as opaque binary
> > objects; comparing them is generally not interesting anyway.
> >
> > > Do we have a decent binary diff and binary patch tool?
> >
> > We have bsdiff and bspatch, but their output is not designed for human
> > consumption or editing.
> >
>
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes@freebsd.org
>
>



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