[pacman-dev] xdelta support in pacman 3.x

[VMiklos]

Na Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:37:09PM +1300, Dale Ogilvie <pnyli0002 at sneakemail.com> pisal(a):
> instead of the whole enchilada every time a buffer overflow exploit is fixed 
> in kernel26

huh, exploits are never fixed in the kernel, they fix the bugs, so that
the explots will no longer work..

> +  xdelta patch $delta_file $base_file $pkg_file

check if xdelta available (see the md5sum and other checks). currently
there is no error handling in case it's not installed which is obviously
problematic

thanks,
VMiklos

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