begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:37:27PM -0700: > > On Fri, August 17, 2007 5:29 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > >>> How would this work for a system that is under package management and > >>> you have to revert the database that goes along with the packages? > >> > >> Seems to me that you would have to revert the whole entire system at > >> once so that the binaries from the installed packages and the db go > >> together. > > > > Yes. If someone could do something clever with merging, I haven't > > figured it out yet. > > No one has ever figured out how to meaningfully merge binary files, if > that's what you mean. It would require a custom merge program for every format. There is no general solution.
However, binary diffs are, um, different. They're just hard, not impossible. > "OK, now merge this jpg of Mickey with this gif of Goofy." You get a tiff of bugs bunny, of course. -- If you do it the other way, you get a PNG of Speed Racer. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
