From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Subject: Re: [NEW] sysutils/s-bsdipa
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:32:06 +0200

Hello again,

my last try to ask for inclusion of

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20250515193051.IEuj3P4l@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 | <20250415213303.moqL3xEJ@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 ...
 ||  S-bsdipa, a mutation of BSDiff:
 ||  create or apply a ZLIB compressed binary difference patch.

Colin Percival's BSDiff algorithm, unchanged.
Small and self-contained (but zlib, say).
XZ / ZSTD support may come later, optionally.

 ||(Think xdelta3 / vcdiff; but very small and often better.)
 ...
 |Ie it is like a combined FreeBSD bsdiff(1)/bspatch(1), but uses
 |a different storage format.
 ...
 ||The full test suite is only part of the BsDiPa perl (CPAN) module
 ||(because it would be quite lengthy in C), therefore the port only
 ||creates an on-the-fly test that at least shows that the executable
 ||as such is at least usable.

Ciao,

--steffen
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