RE: [opensuse-packaging] Patch RPM's and the -P option

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Scott Lowrey wrote:

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

Basically you just need two different version of a package to create a patch from a to b. The creation of a patch rpm is done by a special program, which isn't publicly available to my knowledge - but AFAIK there are attempts to change this. Michael will know for sure ;) Regards Christoph