Gary Kline wrote: > Regarding most (or many) of the port changes--say, upgrading > foo-2.1.9_5 to foo-2.1.9_6, if the upgrade could be done by > downloading a binary diff file, could the resulting > /usr/local/bin/foo-2.1.9_6 be achieved by downloading a > relatively small binary patch? Seems to me that smaller scale > upgrades could be done this way in preference to re-compiling > ports or downloading entire pacakes. --Same would go for any > dependencies. > > Why is this a bad idea! > > gary portsnap works on this basis as does freebsd-update, see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ I can imagine it could get horribly complex, but using http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ i guess its potentially possible. Colin Percival would be a good person to talk to if you're thinking of implementing this, since he wrote the tools referenced above.
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