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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:24:38 +0700
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system
Message-ID:  <20050331102437.GA98638@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20050331101621.GL10485@submonkey.net>
References:  <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <20050331101621.GL10485@submonkey.net>

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:16:21AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:47:55PM -0800, 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.
> >   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?
> 
> While it's probably easy to guess from the names, can you explain what
> they are?

I also want to ask if there're enough reasons to bring portsnap and
its dependencies into the base.  What's wrong with having it in ports?
It does not seem to be used/needed for vast majority of our user base,
or am I wrong?

Thanks!

./danfe



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