From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 10:54:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE531065678 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 10:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5769B8FC20 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 10:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF3Oo-0000VL-U3 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:54:46 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:54:46 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:54:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:54:39 +0200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100518 Thunderbird/3.0.4 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: GSoC: Binary patches to packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:54:48 -0000 Hello, As one of the SoC projects dealing with the ports/packages infrastructure, I will be working on infrastructure for building, applying and maintaining binary patches to packages. This is a part of the discussion at various threads I've started or participated in, but with a reduced scope. More details can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/IvanVoras/pkg_patch It should be both interesting and useful :)