Re: xdelta files for security patches

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 05/13/03

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To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>

    At 01:04 13/05/2003 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    >Has xdelta (in ports under misc/xdelta) ever been considered as a means of
    >delivering binary patches for security updates?
    >
    >It seems to be a pretty neat.

       Using some form of binary diffs is on my todo list for FreeBSD Update
    (security/freebsd-update), but it's not a matter of critical
    importance. Right now updating from 4.7-RELEASE to the latest binaries
    takes around 30 MB, depending upon which install set you chose (nocrypt,
    crypt, kerberos4, kerberos5); good binary diffs would probably reduce this
    to around 5 MB.
       That said, I'm not sure if I would choose xdelta.

    Colin Percival

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