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December 2005

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Patch RPM's and the -P option
by Scott Lowrey 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

The rpm command on SuSE 9.1 and 9.3 provides a patch select option (-P, --patches). I have not had a chance to review rpm on OpenSUSE, yet but will be doing that soon, so apologies if this message appears to be a bit misdirected - it's not. :-) Anyway, I'm guessing that a patch RPM is a "partial package" that does not contain all files, instead providing only the files that have been updated? If I issue the "rpm -qPa" command, I see a small subset of RPMs - notably, those that appear to have been applied as part of an online update. The Red Hat/Fedora/rpm.org guides and the master RPM change list do not document a -P option. Can someone give me some background? Is this a SuSE creation? What distinguishes a patch RPM from a regular RPM? I do know that any RPM can be considered a "patch" or "update", but I have a need to track RPMs that have been specifically applied in response to customer problem reports - this feature seems to meet that need. Thanks for your help. -Scott Lowrey

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SynCE 0.9.1 out there since 2005-07-08
by Joern Ende 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi Folks, a new version of SynCE (software to sync a windows CE based PDA to linux) has been released. http://sourceforge.net/projects/synce/ There are new releases of orange and unshield to. On the SuSE 10.0 DVD and in the repos there is only the version 0.9.0 from 2004-09-12. The new release has a lot of bugfixes and new features. Perhaps any of the packagers out there could build rpms for SuSE 10.0. Regards JOern

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