Re: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions[Scanned]

2003-09-14 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:55, chris wrote: > The other major thing is that what I diff is (obviously) the .tar files, > not the .tar.bz2 files, as even a small change to a file usually totally > changes a compressed version of it. The only problem I can see this > causing is that the bzip2 file

Re: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-08-01 Thread Max Bowsher
chris wrote: > The patch system I am currently using is my personal conversion of the > bsdiff package from *BSD. I was intending to submit a cygwinized > version, but have decided that to be honest the program is not of the > highest quality, so think a re-write of the program would be useful > be

Re: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-08-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:55, chris wrote: > The other major thing is that what I diff is (obviously) the .tar files, > not the .tar.bz2 files, as even a small change to a file usually totally > changes a compressed version of it. The only problem I can see this > causing is that the bzip2 file

Re: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-07-31 Thread chris
Max Bowsher wrote: chris wrote: I tend (like I suspect many other people) to update my cygwin every couple of weeks. As cygwin by default keeps packages it downloads it would make sense to distribute patches to existing files. As a tiny example: emacs-21.2-11.tar.bzip2 : 8MB emacs-21.2-12.tar.

Re: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-07-31 Thread Max Bowsher
chris wrote: > I tend (like I suspect many other people) to update my cygwin every > couple of weeks. As cygwin by default keeps packages it downloads it > would make sense to distribute patches to existing files. > > As a tiny example: > > emacs-21.2-11.tar.bzip2 : 8MB > emacs-21.2-12.tar.bzip2 :

Re: RFC: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-07-31 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:11, chris wrote: > I would like to try to pull this into the main cygwin setup tree, and > was wondering if there is any kind of document that specifies exactly > how files will be set out on both the computer and the server, of if I > should just parse the code and see

RFC: Allowing cygwin setup to patch up old versions

2003-07-31 Thread chris
Hello, I am sorry if this covers things already discussed on this list or some other list (I suspect it might), but a quick search through the archives failed to provide anything. I tend (like I suspect many other people) to update my cygwin every couple of weeks. As cygwin by default keeps pa