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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Patch RPM's and the -P option
- From: David Bolt <bcrafhfr-cnpxntvat@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 01:26:14 +0000
- Message-id: <ThxbeFB2K6jDFwPP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx> wrote:-
>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.
Since there's no RPMs available, I've created a spec file[0] and built
the packages. Source and binary RPMs are available from:
<URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/patchrpm/index.htm>
[0] quick and nasty, but does the job :)
Regards,
David Bolt
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>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.
Since there's no RPMs available, I've created a spec file[0] and built
the packages. Source and binary RPMs are available from:
<URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/patchrpm/index.htm>
[0] quick and nasty, but does the job :)
Regards,
David Bolt
--
Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/
AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11
AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02
AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62
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