Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:06:29 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xdelta files for security patches Message-ID: <20030514090629.GA81399@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030514085255.01df92a0@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <200305130104.25177.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <5.0.2.1.1.20030514085255.01df92a0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:07:24AM +0100, Colin Percival wrote: > At 00:35 13/05/2003 +0100, I wrote: > > 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. > > Of course, when I wrote this, I had no idea that I was about to write a > binary diff/patch utility in 12 hours. In doing so, I've lost quite a bit > of respect for xdelta; ok, my code is about five times slower and has a > larger memory footprint, but it produces diffs 35% smaller and weighs in at > a massive 281 lines (in contrast to the thousands of lines of code in > xdelta). > I'll be adding this into FreeBSD Update in the near future. If anyone > wants the code for other purposes, feel free to contact me. When I read this thread yesterday, I was going to suggest taking a look at the rsync code. Still, it sounds like your code is much simpler than the rsync algorithm described at http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/. This is probably a good thing :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+wgcV7Ri2jRYZRVMRAmmjAJ42b4+FglNv1RbinU0HHM1Ctm4XrQCfToJj rUlnjioSNW6UZOlgkRY0F9U= =cx8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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