magic numbers for deltarpms and deltaisos

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 07:00:52 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:24 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote:
> The file command appears to detect deltarpms as the same type of file as
> regular RPMs.  Deltaisos are only detected as "data".  Is this normal
> behavior?

A deltarpm's header is identical to a rpm's header (except that the
payload format is "drpm"), so it will always be seen as an rpm by file.
I'm not sure about deltaiso.

Jonathan
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