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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Patch RPM's and the -P option
  • From: Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:51:50 +0100
  • Message-id: <20051201105150.GC25517@xxxxxxx>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:26:45PM +0100, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> 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 ;)

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/patchrpm/patchrpm-1.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy,
Michael.

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