On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:41:10PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > So, i think if there .diff's exist, maybe apt-get can patch the > > Changes into the files on the client, or a small wrapper arround > > apt-get can do this.. > Goodness, you are the second person to ask for this in a month. Diff is not > suitable since there are many versions the file could be diffed against. You > need rsync, anoncvs, or similar.
No, you don't. We've done the maths, incremental --ed style diffs are the way to do this: they make for by far the smallest download, and minimal archive bloat. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Is this some kind of psych test? Am I getting paid for this?''
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