8 Jul
2002
8 Jul
'02
09:16
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