Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andreas Barth: > > >> Is this really a good idea? patch invokes ed(1) to process ed > >> scripts, and this might lead to execution of arbitrary commands. > > > > It is agreed that the usage of patch and ed is _not_ the recommended > > way for production code (but acceptable for prototype code). However, as > > already discussed last time, the patches need only a tiny subset of ed > > that is not only provided by red, but can even be implemented internally > > in apt. > > Unfortunately, deltas created with "diff -e" are not suitable for > one-pass processing.
They can be cumulated, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00462.html > The output from "diff -f" is, I haven't found an -f option in diff. Thiemo
