Re: more about binary patches

[Andre Lucas <lucas@ae-35.net>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:05:24AM -0500, Jeff Bachtel wrote:
<snip>
> My idea thus far in regards to this has been to generate a -stable
> tree, extract a -release tree, and traverse the files (performing
> binary compares between them). Files with different content would be
> added to a delta tarball that could be used by a patching script.

Another approach would be to install into a different DESTDIR (like
the ports' 'fake' system) and tar up the new files. Scanning the tree
for changes seems a bit extreme.

-Andre