Re: Can RPM handle "patch" RPM files ?

[Martin Koller <koller etm at>]

On Thursday 01 February 2007, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:50:04PM +0100, Martin Koller wrote:
> > Is there any way to solve this or is RPM simply not made for this
> > scenario ?
>
> The latter.  You should provide new RPM's of the full product and
> give them a newer version and/or release number, so that you can
> upgrade with "rpm -U ...".

That's a pitty, as a new package would mean ~250 MBs ... which is not really 
an option if I want to deliver a patch for 1 file ...

Thanks nevertheless for the quick reply.

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