Protocol & package independent draft

[Colin Percival]

At 14:22 22/06/2003 +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
>4a. Download all the packages from the configuration file.
>4b. Download all the packages in the local installed package list.

   You might want to reconsider this; or rather, do the above in some 
"intelligent" manner which takes advantage of any files already installed.
   With FreeBSD Update, updating 4.7-RELEASE to the latest RELENG_4_7 
touches 84 files totalling 30MB out of a >120MB world, and by using binary 
patches (specifically, misc/bsdiff) I've got that down to 543876 
bytes.  (This isn't in the published version of FreeBSD Update yet; expect 
it in a couple days.)

Colin Percival