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