On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:30 +0200, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > Folks, > > Hope this is not too far offtopic for this list .. rpm-list is better place for this. > I wish to build rpm packages that contain pictures - in fact > image archives from wikipedia. > > I would like to be able to rsync updated versions of these rpms at > a later date, that will be mostly the same, plus/minus a few. > > As a consequence, I do /not/ want the rpms to be compressed, so > that rsync can handle the diffs efficiently. I assume you want the payload to be rsyncable. There are a few rpm delta implementations: http://toast.debian.net/~may/rpmdelta/ http://primates.ximian.com/~pzb/rpmdelta-0.0.3.tar.gz To produce a delta off the original rpm. > Is there a spec file directive I can use to specify that the > brp-compress step is skipped ? This is not what you need (but yes you can turn off brp-compress with a %define). brp-compress compresses man pages/info - it will not affect rsyncs ability to handle the rpm payload which is compressed cpio. Paul
