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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary Diff System in Arch


From: Sam Phillips
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary Diff System in Arch
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:21:31 -0800

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004, at 08:59 PST, Tom Lord wrote:
> You got lots of good replies which could be summarized:
> 
> ~ nobody is known to be working on it
> ~ we've talked about the design a big
> ~ the trick is to get diff and patch to "Do the Right Thing"
> ~ one way to do that is by wrapping diff and patch, another by
>   modifying them
> ~ people will need your changes in one form or another if they
>   are going to be able to read your archives
> 
> I'm going to follow up with two additional points:
> 
> ~ in addition to changing diff and patch, you'll also need to 
>   change diff3.
> 
> ~ enclosed is an explanation of how things work and an outline of what
>   needs to be done

Thanks everyone for suggestions.  I think I'm going to mess around with
doing this a little, and see how it goes.

-- 
Sam Phillips <address@hidden>                http://www.dasbistro.com
San Francisco                                                 California




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