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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:35, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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)

As an embarrassing matter of fact, I totally forgot about your work. Thanks=
=20
for reminding me!

=2D-=20
Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock

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