Marcos Laufer wrote on Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:03:10AM -0300: > From: "Tasmanian Devil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> http://openbsdbinpatch.sourceforge.net/ :-) > Wow, that openbsdbinpatch looks pretty good! I 've just downloaded it > and the idea of making binary patches in order to easily copy them to > other similar machines is excellent. Indeed it is a simple and powerful idea, and the code is not too difficult to understand. It worked for me when i used it. Yet, be careful. Binpatch is *definitely* unsupported by the OpenBSD project. The standard way to do the task is release(8). What is more, Binpatch is essentially unsupported by its author, too. Neither Gerardo nor me take the time to update it regularly, nowadays. More than a year ago, i checked and edited the Makefile, made it easier to understand, easier to maintain, shorter and more robust. Several of my suggestions were incorporated by Gerardo into the Sourceforge 1.0.0 release, but not all - mostly because i sent those changes in more than one batch, and he found no time to process the last of these batches. I did not pursue the subject rigourously enough to get commit access to the SF repository myself. So if you use it, you will probably need to do maintenance work yourself, first of all adapting it to OpenBSD 4.0. > It would be great if openbsdbinpatch could be configured like > TEPATCHE specifying the folder where to get the patches from, > instead of specifiyng patch by patch in the Makefile, so it > could be used to patch any OpenBSD version, not just the last > one. > Perhaps someone with some programming skills could do it. Maybe i shall come back to the project, maybe not. Currently, it is not near the top of my priority list.
