VirtualBox guest additions prevent usage of kernel deltarpm

[Andre Robatino]

Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:09 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> When the VirtualBox guest additions are installed for a given kernel, 
>> this apparently modifies the files modules.alias.bin, modules.dep.bin, 
>> and modules.symbols.bin in the corresponding kernel package, so the 
>> kernel deltarpm can't be used, and the full kernel package must be 
>> downloaded.  Considering that this is a common situation, and that these 
>> files are much smaller than the entire kernel package, is there any way 
>> this can be worked around, so the drpm can be used?  (VirtualBox doesn't 
>> seem to have any utility for removing guest additions, so I haven't 
>> tried that.)
> 
> The easy way is to mark those files as %config.  Then deltarpm won't try
> to delta those particular files.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> P.S. It's not just VirtualBox.  If you use any kmods, I think you'll run
> into this.
> 

Is it the same 3 files that get modified?  If so, there's a good case 
for doing what you suggest.  I tried gzipping copies of these 3 files 
and they compress pretty well (total size less than 200K), so the drpm 
shouldn't be significantly bigger.
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