Adding bsdiff to the base system

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 31 21:02:25 PST 2005


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



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