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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:31:19 +0100
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Andrew Turner <zombie@i4free.co.nz>, freebsd-binup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Protocol & package independent draft
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.1.20030622122357.02c13c98@popserver.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3EF512DF.10602@i4free.co.nz>

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At 14:22 22/06/2003 +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
>4a. Download all the packages from the configuration file.
>4b. Download all the packages in the local installed package list.

   You might want to reconsider this; or rather, do the above in some 
"intelligent" manner which takes advantage of any files already installed.
   With FreeBSD Update, updating 4.7-RELEASE to the latest RELENG_4_7 
touches 84 files totalling 30MB out of a >120MB world, and by using binary 
patches (specifically, misc/bsdiff) I've got that down to 543876 
bytes.  (This isn't in the published version of FreeBSD Update yet; expect 
it in a couple days.)

Colin Percival




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