[Rpm-maint] [Suse patch] Support for patch rpms

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Tue May 29 09:29:42 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:45 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> A large, very non-trivial patch - not really 4.4.2.1 material. And like 
> the patch commentary already says, delta rpm's are a much nicer way to 
> deal with the issue. My understanding is that Suse is abandoning patch 
> rpms in favor of delta rpms, so patch rpm support is really only needed 
> for already released products. So we could essentially just forget about 
> this... or am I mistaken?
> 

I don't think patch rpm format merits any attention for 4.4.2.1 and I
think it's basically an abandoned path for delta rpm, so yes your
assesment seems 100% to me.

Paul




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