From my local system:

ken@12-222-173-196:~$ apt-cache show bsdiff Package: bsdiff Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net Architecture: i386 Version: 4.3-2 Provides: bspatch Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) Filename: pool/main/b/bsdiff/bsdiff_4.3-2_i386.deb Size: 11994 MD5sum: a81b11a13330330936dfcbed32bb3131 Description: generate/apply a patch between two binary files bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files. By using suffix sorting (specifically, Larsson and Sadakane's qsufsort) and taking advantage of how executable files change, bsdiff routinely produces binary patches 50-80% smaller than those produced by Xdelta, and 15% smaller than those produced by .RTPatch (a commercial patch tool).

The site appears to be

http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

This doesn't seem to be in sarge so a simple apt-get install won't quite do it. But it's requirements are clearly minor so I see no problem with this. I started to just manually download and install it then I realized that we don't meet the libc dependency. So instead I decided to build it from source. So bsdiff-4.3 is now installed.

Ken

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:21 +0100, Cees De Groot wrote:

Sure. What is bsdiff?

On 3/13/06, Marcus Denker denker@iam.unibe.ch wrote:

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Hi,

Can we install "bsdiff" on the machine? I would like to at least provide small patches for the .zip of the 3.9a releases...

 Marcus