RE: Can RPM handle "patch" RPM files ?

["Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron pdinc us>]

What I would do then is create a patch to the RPM instead.


Using the mythical bdiff & bpatch (http://google.com/search?q=binary+diff):


foo-1.0.0.0-1.rpm [250MB]
foo-1.0.0.0-2.rpm [251MB] 

"bdiff" foo-1.0.0.0-1.rpm foo-1.0.0.0-2.rpm > foo-1.0.0.0-1-2.patchrpm

foo-1.0.0.0-1-2.patchrpm [12MB]

"bpatch"  foo-1.0.0.0-1.rpm foo-1.0.0.0-1-2.patchrpm > foo-1.0.0.0-2.rpm

Done.

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpm-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:rpm-list-bounces redhat com] On
Behalf Of Martin Koller
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:42
To: RPM Package Manager
Subject: Re: Can RPM handle "patch" RPM files ?

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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