I've just downloaded a pile of rpms from the update site. I noticed there were "patch" rpms, as well as the normal ones. They've probably been there for ever, but I've never seen them before. :-} What are they and how does one use them? -- 9:51am up 56 days, 1:56, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
They're packages that just contain the differences in the binaries, so they patch your installation up to the latest version. This makes them a lot smaller than normal packages, which is a lot friendlier to people on dial-up or other metered connections. You use them in the same way as normal RPMs...
I've just downloaded a pile of rpms from the update site. I noticed there were "patch" rpms, as well as the normal ones. They've probably been there for ever, but I've never seen them before. :-} What are they and how does one use them? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org
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On Monday 08 July 2002 10:00 am, you wrote:
They're packages that just contain the differences in the binaries, so they patch your installation up to the latest version.
This makes them a lot smaller than normal packages, which is a lot friendlier to people on dial-up or other metered connections.
You use them in the same way as normal RPMs...
Presumably you'd get both the old rpm and the new patch rpm in your list when you do "rpm -qa"? Or is it cleverer than that? -- 10:16am up 56 days, 2:21, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.01
It's cleverer than that :)
Presumably you'd get both the old rpm and the new patch rpm in your list when you do "rpm -qa"? Or is it cleverer than that? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org
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James, do you have any inside information about how patch rpms work? Are you for example able to create a patch rpm? If so, how would it be done? Op maandag 8 juli 2002 11:27, schreef James Ogley:
It's cleverer than that :)
Presumably you'd get both the old rpm and the new patch rpm in your list when you do "rpm -qa"? Or is it cleverer than that?
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