Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 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.

is xdelta any help?

>..

Regards,
..jim



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