From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 05:02:24 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 DFC9716A4D0 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:02:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2F543D2F for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:02:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E250446B83; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:02:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:59:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:02:25 -0000 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. I think this would be a useful addition. They're very handy, and are nice "atomic" tools that can be used to build more complex solutions in the traditional UNIX style. Robert N M Watson