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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2014 09:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
To:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Delta packages
Message-ID:  <201405151638.s4FGcpk8075877@kithrup.com>

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>It is my understanding that pkgng keeps the old packages in
>/var/cache/pkg. Wouldn't it be easier to implement delta packages as
>binpatches between the decompressed tar streams of the two package versions?

That is a cache only, and cannot be counted upon.  And in our environment, we
are not going to keep the package file around after it's been installed.




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