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authorYen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-08 06:38:27 +0000
committerYen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-08 06:38:27 +0000
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This is a pair of tools for creating and applying very compact patches to
binary files (especially executable files). It will be used by the next version of the security/freebsd-update port. PR: 53018 Submitted by: Colin Percival <cperciva@beastie.daemonology.net>
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+This is a pair of tools for building (bsdiff) and applying (bspatch)
+binary patches. When applied to two versions of the same executable
+the patches produced are significantly smaller than those generated
+by other binary diff tools (eg, xdelta).
+
+WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
+
+- Colin Percival
+cperciva@daemonology.net