Partial RPMs possible ?

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim T.
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:50
> Subject: Partial RPMs possible ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm trying to develop a patch application for a client. 
> This client is used to the Sun/Solaris way of working, and 
> expects that a patch will contain only the 
> targets-to-be-repaired for a package (i.e. if one file needs 
> updating, they want to release a patch-package containing a 
> single file, even if the original package, even though the 
> original package contained 150 files.
> 
>   Is this possible at all ? Preliminary experiments seem to 
> indicate I'd get an ownership conflict.
> 
> 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 ?)

Use rsync to patch the rpm, as it is the simplest way of doing this.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  Tim T.
> 



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