That, and some smart versioning scheme, but I think I've got the versioning covered.
Thanks!
TimT.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:15, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice, very nice.
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> [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart D. Gathman
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:59
> To: General discussion about the RPM package manager
> Subject: Re: Partial RPMs possible ?
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Tim T. wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to develop a patch application for a client.
> This client
> > is ...
> > Also, does anybody have any suggestions for a good patch strategy ?
> > (Application consists of a number of packages, some of
> which contain a
> > large number of files. How do I minimize the amount of data
> I need to
> > push to a remote machine, over a very expensive link ?)
>
> Deltarpm is the way Fedora solved this problem. See if you
> can use that.
>
> http://gitorious.org/deltarpm/deltarpm
>
> "makedeltarpm oldrpm newrpm deltarpm" takes 2 rpms, and
> creates a drpm with the differences.
>
> "applydeltarpm -r oldrpm deltarpm newrpm" creates a standard
> rpm from the previous version (either a copy of the old rpm
> or the installed data).
>
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