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Most Linux distributions are not going to have enough hardware to rebuild large fractions of their packages when a vulnerability is found in a popular library i
by ex_amazon_sde 10y ago
Most Linux distributions are not going to have enough hardware to rebuild large fractions of their packages when a vulnerability is found in a popular library in a reasonable time.
Also, many users will be unhappy to download gigabytes of updates when this happens instead of few megs.
(Not every organization runs an internal mirror and not every user sits on a 1GBit pipe)
This would lead to very slow security updates for the end users.
- artificial 10y agoChrome makes use of binary patching. Just the deltas are sent. Originally they used bsdiff and ended up implementing their own (superior) version. https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer-too.html https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe...