Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

[Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 	Perhaps this is overkill, one simplification would be to assume
> that the binary patches are only for systems installed from official ISOs
> and so the binary update will take you from (say) 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 and will
> complain if the file being patched does not have the expected intial
> checksum. The principle being that a user is either in release plus binary
> updates world or in build from source world but not in both.

IIRC this is (was?) the way freebsd-update worked.

Regards,

	Matthias

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