Am Dienstag, den 15.03.2005, 15:12 -0800 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:43PM +0100, Thomas Hille wrote: > > > > While I need say that I also see the problem of having to strip a nice > > packaged rpm apart before doing the diff involves some more code in to > > get the job done. Which in turn involves more errors. > > > diff'ing files also ignores file permissions and rpm package metadata. Don't get me wrong here. I just meant to diff two rpms in a way, were you take apart the two rpms diff their content, (including _all_ metadata of course) put the diffs in some kind of container (prpms?). Then, when the end-user would update the old installed rpm would be used in conjunction with the diff-container to produce a new current rpm. Maybe my point was not clear because I also mentioned single files on the end-users computer. What I meant there was, you could recreate the old installed rpm out of data mostly already present on the end-users computer, instead of having to keep a copy of the rpm around. Thomas
