Re: Binary RPM patch packages versus Windows SP style

[James Olin Oden <joden lee k12 nc us>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Robert Vojta wrote:

The main thing you have to get right though, is that after you have 
patched package A n times, an upgrade to a newer full A should remove
entries for all the patches to A from the rpm db.   The main issue
is that patches are not upgrades because no package gets errased when 
you add a package.  An upgrade is always the new package installed 
followed by the old package erased.  Clearly this is not what you want 
to happen when you add a patch, but when you upgrade to a new full
version then rpm must be smart enough to add erase elements to the 
transaction not only for the earlier major version you are updating
but for all the intermediate patches.  It could be done, but you would 
need to find some way in the DB to link the patches to the original 
package.

Just a thought...james