Re: Creating patches

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hm.. Maybe you could just use "bspatch" directly. Just create a patch for
> every changed file (and import it), and install new files.
> I don't know how large your program is, but i think it would be easy to
> write a script which helps you.
> The problem is that you will need bsdiff installed on the destination
> system.
> How does autopackage handle binary patches for C++ programs?


It replaces the current binary file with the one in the package and keeps a
backup of the old file, if I am not mistaken(correct me if I'm wrong).


> Does it use bspatch, too? I don't know much about binary patches, just
> googeled a little bit.
>
> Jan-Nik
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 2008/3/6, Hylke Donker <[email protected]>:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like to create patches with autopackage. Does autopackage have
> > tools
> > > to easily create patches? For example, is there a tool that compares
> > an old
> > > autopackage with the current files, so that it only adds the files
> > that are
> > > new or modified?
> >
> > No, we don't provide that functionality. Sorry
> >
> > -Isak
> >
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