Re: Can RPM handle "patch" RPM files ?

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A way back, I've heard about "RPM DIFF" project, searched on the web,
could not find anything quickly, maybe somebody knows about it, this
what probably you are looking for.

ip

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:41 +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 ...
> 
> Thanks nevertheless for the quick reply.
> 
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