On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 Prakash_Nara@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Does rpm support patching a binary rpm package? > In short, no, as someone else has answered. The long answer is that you generally need to patch, because RPM supports the upgrading an rpm. Essentially, when you upgrade an rpm (and this is abreviated) it places the files from the new rpm on the system, and then removes any old ones that are not part of the newer package. The only case I have seen where someone really had the need for a patch mechanism was because they said there app rpm was very large and they wanted to not force the user to download such a large package (or something like that). Course I firmly believe that in most cases like this the package needs to be split into multiple packages with the proper dependencies such that you can more easily surgically update sections of your program. The only case I know of where this was not an alternative was when someone was packaging some sort of firmware update that was pretty large, course in this case the sort of patching that your talking about would not help because there is only one big file in such a package. Anyway, rpm upgrades usually make the need of doing a patching mechanism non-existant. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
