On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:57, Garrick Staples wrote: > 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. I use suse at home -- but yum only at work, sorry. patch.rpm have "rpmlib(PatchRPMs) <= 3.0.6-1" as last line of REQUIRENAME (opening the patch.rpm with mc). I really don't know _how_ they are generated from the src.rpm, which is the same used for the "full" rpm. btw, I'm going to install suse 9 next week (I hope) pc
