Delta packages

Sean Eric Fagan sef at Kithrup.COM
Thu May 15 16:38:59 UTC 2014


>It is my understanding that pkgng keeps the old packages in
>/var/cache/pkg. Wouldn't it be easier to implement delta packages as
>binpatches between the decompressed tar streams of the two package versions?

That is a cache only, and cannot be counted upon.  And in our environment, we
are not going to keep the package file around after it's been installed.



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