Re: Handling deltarpms through librpm

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:34:20PM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> I'm wondering how agnostic librpm (specifically rpmInstall()) is of  
> delta rpms. I'm trying to support Novell SUSE Enterprise as well as  
> RHEL, and it seems to be that deltarpms are the patch distribution  
> format of choice for SUSE.

AFAIK, delta rpms are SUSE-specific and support for it has never been
implemented by mainstream RPM versions.

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