On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:54 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > > Switching gears a bit, though: last I heard, debian does not have a binary > > > patching system. just a source code packaging system, that primarily > > > exists as > > > "original tarball + set of patches", as you noted. > > > > sound like debdelta which has been around for years is what you are > > looking for. > > if it's "been around for years", why does virtually no-one use it?
Since it is useless with Debian where all packages are very nicely granulated in small peaces. Xorg was the last monster, it is been fixed in 7.x. But nothing stops one to use debdelta on a daily basis. It will greatly reduce upgrade & patching speed. Some folks even thinking about closer dpkg & apt-get integration. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
