Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:35:23 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xdelta files for security patches Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030513001702.02e4a018@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <200305130104.25177.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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At 01:04 13/05/2003 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >Has xdelta (in ports under misc/xdelta) ever been considered as a means of >delivering binary patches for security updates? > >It seems to be a pretty neat. Using some form of binary diffs is on my todo list for FreeBSD Update (security/freebsd-update), but it's not a matter of critical importance. Right now updating from 4.7-RELEASE to the latest binaries takes around 30 MB, depending upon which install set you chose (nocrypt, crypt, kerberos4, kerberos5); good binary diffs would probably reduce this to around 5 MB. That said, I'm not sure if I would choose xdelta. Colin Percival
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