Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#2ZY40)
It almost went unnoticed due to the 6.2-beta announcement, but Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) just commited a very useful update to syspatch. In this commit, the groundwork is done for having syspatch update only the kernel object files that have changed. Due to KARL, the scheme to relink the kernel for each reboot, it makes sense to save space and bandwidth that way.
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