Hi, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
I don't know what you mean. deltarpms itself have no dependencies. rpms have. deltarpms are merely a mean to efficiently download rpms. A solver doesn't enter the game. Our solver (zypp) is integrated with package management (zypp again), and support deltarpms natively.
But if you some repo "X" has deltarpms in it, is it possible to install those with zypp ?
Yes, of course. A repo never only contains just deltarpms, it always also contains (at least) the full rpms (the targets of the deltarpms). It can contain multiple deltarpms between several underlying versions. If zypp gets the request to download rpm "X-1.1", it will look on the users system if it already has "X" in some version installed (say X-1.0a), then looks if the repo happens to have a delta from X-1.0a to X-1.1 and prefers to download that instead of the full rpm. I.e. deltarpms really are just a download accelerator. If a matching deltarpm doesn't exist zypp simply will download the full rpm (or if that exists maybe a patch rpm, but those meanwhile are obsolete as they have too many problems by design). Ciao, Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org