On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > From what I can tell nobody is interested in implementing a rpm.diff > system right now (please correct me if I am wrong). > > One of the problems raised in earlier threads is that the RPMs need to > be available on the updating computer to apply the patches to. I wrote a proof of concept tool to make and apply rpm deltas a while ago (using rpm libraries and xdelta), see http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/rpmdelta/ I haven't do anything with it recently but I do occasionally use it to save bandwidth on openoffice patches. Michael Young