Re: Can RPM handle "patch" RPM files ?

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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 06:41:39PM +0100, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007, Jos Vos wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:50:04PM +0100, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Is there any way to solve this or is RPM simply not made for this
> > > scenario ?
> >
> > The latter.  You should provide new RPM's of the full product and
> > give them a newer version and/or release number, so that you can
> > upgrade with "rpm -U ...".
> 
> That's a pitty, as a new package would mean ~250 MBs ... which is not really 
> an option if I want to deliver a patch for 1 file ...

Is that one file always the same one? You can split the rpm into
sub-rpms. Just make sure the inter-dependencies are ok, and then you'd
only have to send the small sub-rpm.

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