Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (113 mails)

["Scott Lowrey" <slowrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-packaging] Patch RPM's and the -P option
> [snip] 
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, it's a SUSE local change.
> 
> A patch RPM is really only a partial RPM, it can only be applied if
> the package is already installed.
> 

Thanks, Andreas.  How, then, do I develop a patch RPM?  Are there spec file
macros that tell rpmbuild that this is a patch?

Sorry for all the questions.  If you can steer me to relevant documentation,
I'll go there.  :-)

-Scott