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> In-Reply-To: <201903150336.x2F3a1ZN028366@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <CAPyFy2Caxx-MSRqFruV%2Bq-A9LJbzP-okJvWLAmQaLKgOW8uQnQ@mail.gmail.com> <201903150336.x2F3a1ZN028366@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CANCZdfqVgjstRhppD4j9SKLmMgL8W0dfWuqGGt7Ec4qk4AirhQ>