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chris wrote:
I tend (like I suspect many other people) to update my cygwin every couple of weeks. As cygwin by default keeps packages it downloads it would make sense to distribute patches to existing files.
As a tiny example:
emacs-21.2-11.tar.bzip2 : 8MB emacs-21.2-12.tar.bzip2 : 8MB patch: 177K
emacs-21.2-11-src.tar.bzip2 : 19MB
emacs-21.2-12-src.tar.bzip2 : 19MB
patch : 3K (!)
This sounds like a very useful thing to do.
Question: What format are the patches? Some kind of binary format, I assume,
since they will need to be able to reconstruct the archives exactly, so the
MD5 checks can pass.
Such as it is, documentation is at: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html
Please join the cygwin-apps@cygwin.com list. That is where setup development discussion happens.
Max.
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