From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 23:48:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2313016A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606BB43D45 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.232]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE6009SMVG6T3D0@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:48:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE6007GKVG6DJN0@pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:48:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IE600D3EVG50H@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:48:06 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:47:55 -0800 From: Colin Percival To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Message-id: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050326) Subject: Adding bsdiff to the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:48:07 -0000 I'd like to add bsdiff/bspatch into the base system. I initially wrote these as part of FreeBSD Update, but I'm now also using them in portsnap, and bspatch has been part of the OS X base system for most of the past year as a result of being used by their patches. My reason for wanting to add this is that portsnap is next on my hit list, and I obviously need to get this done first. Any objections? Colin Percival