Contributed by jason on from the I-can-haz-binareh-patches dept.
Gerardo Santana announces an update to binpatch:
Binpatch is a framework for creating binary patches for OpenBSD on all platforms in a semi-automatic way. It can automatically download the source patches published on the OpenBSD page, apply them, build them, and package the result into binary patches. You can learn more about binpatch at its home page or browse the source code at github.
More details in the Changelog below...
Thanks to Mike Erdely (merdely@) for contributing the substantial changes in this release.
Changelog follows:
1.1.0 2008-05-21 ------------------ New features: Contributed by Mike Erdely <mike at erdelynet dot com>: * Set the CDSRC variable to avoid checking for sys.tar.gz (as is the case when the sources come from the CD). * Ability to build multiple kernels. * Ability to sign binary patches with gzsig. * New target _includes added. Contributed by Mike Erdely <mike at erdelynet dot com>, Lloyd <lloydr at megapathdsl.net> and z0mbix <z0mbix at gmail dot com> Bugs fixed: * Building on macpcc failed because it was looking for the kernel directory "powerpc"; instead of "macppc". Fixed by z0mbix <z0mbix at gmail dot com>
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By viq (viq) vicviq@gmail.com on
I guess being shown at a conference is good enough statement of "yeah, this can be public" ;)
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By Gerardo Santana (santana) on http://santanatechnotes.blogspot.com
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> I guess being shown at a conference is good enough statement of "yeah, this can be public" ;)
It says it's based on binpatch. Looks nice.
Last year the author was so kind to offer me to mail me his changes. I'm probably merging them when I get them.
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By Artis (artis) on
Please do.
By Luis Coronado (190.10.76.226) on
By Marc Espie (213.41.185.88) espie@openbsd.org on
Integrating binary base releases is one long-term goal I would have for the packages stuff, but I'm still a long way from having actually done it, and there are a lot of infrastructure snags.
Having somebody else standing up and doing it (of course, in a different way than I would have, but it's the same with every complicated endeavor) is really cool. I'm sure it's helping a lot of people, and eventually, we may have a full binary distribution architecture for everything OpenBSD.
Keep going !