Hi, On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:28:04AM -0500, James Olin Oden wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Klaus Schrod wrote: > > I need to create a patch rpm package for a bigger rpm packege. I want to > > change only one or two files in this big package and for several reasons > > I am not able to distribute a new version of the big package. > > > > Does anybody know a documentation how to create patch rpms? > RPM does not support patching perse. It supports upgrading existing > packages. The end result of upgrading a package gives you the same thing > as "patch" rpm would except that you do have redistribute the entire rpm. There is a patched version of rpm distributed by Suse offering "patch rpm" support. Isn't that the way Suse deploys updates to reduce bandwidth consumption? http://www.freestandards.org/pipermail/packaging/2003-March/000214.html But I also don't know where to find documentation (I haven't seen it in action either). -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de
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