On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > To use the client and the server tool you have to install Colin Percivals > bsdiff/bspatch tools at first. I have a version ready for DragonFly here: > > # fetch > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/update-dragonfly/bsdiff_n_bspatch.tar.gz > # tar xfz bsdiff_n_bspatch.tar.gz && cd bsdiff_n_bspatch > # make && make install
Please see pkgsrc/misc/bsdiff which provides the "Size efficient binary diff and patch tools". I didn't compare yet. But if this is different to pkgsrc, please consider providing your improvements upstream. (I like the general idea. The original paper even quoted about my commercial implementation from a few years ago. My binary patches provided the installation script which could output details about it, backup changed files, and even revert changes. I'd rather use a normal packaging tools though.)
