On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:37:51AM -0400, Rhett Butler alleged: > yes- folks that have recent versions of the beta verified that it has > rpm 4.1.1. > > newb comments/question: suse seems to do updates with "update" rpms. > these rpms are not full versions of the packages they update. do other > distributions do this? i could be wrong about this. if not, will this > stand in the way of using yum for suse? This just pulled something out of my memory regarding an "rpm patch" thingy called rhmask that never seemed to take off. I was a young newb the last time I saw it; I remember being somewhat confused by it.