Hi list, we deliver our product in a RPM file. It contains a lot of executables and other files. When now a bug is discovered in one of the files, we deliver a patch for this specific part of the whole product. Up till now we did that via ZIP files, as this has the option to keep files which are newer on disk than inside the ZIP file. I now tried to also ship a patch file packaged via RPM, which includes only the fixed components. The patch rpm file has a different name as the original product, e.g.: product.rpm contains all files of our product. product-patch01.rpm contains only the patched files. I need to use rpm -i --replacefiles product-patch01.rpm to install the patch as otherwise I get an error file xxx from install product-patch01.rpm conflicts with file from package product.rpm The problem is: --replacefiles does _not_ check if the file on disk is already _newer_ than the one I try to install with the patch rpm (which might be the case when we deliver different patches which include different fixes to the same executable). Is there any way to solve this or is RPM simply not made for this scenario ? -- MfG, () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail Martin /\ - against microsoft attachments Computers and Internet gave you freedom. TCPA would TAKE your FREEDOM! http://www.againsttcpa.com _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
