On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:50:07AM -0500, Tom Rothamel wrote: > This is just a message to announce that I am undertaking a project I > call debdiff. It's goal is to create two tools, debdiff and debpatch, > that can generate a file of differences between .debs and then use > those differences and the original .deb to reconstruct the new .deb. > > (I also have some ideas on how to reconstruct the deb from the > unpacked version of the original, but I want to get the deb+diff->deb > mode working first.) You've looked at dpkg-repack? (apt-get install dpkg-repack, etc) Also, there was some code for some of this posted to the list a while ago. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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