19 Jun
2003
19 Jun
'03
14:10
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:04, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dear Anders,
I took what YOU offered. Explain real please. Does that mean that getting the patch does not have same effect as getting the "real" RPM?
The patch RPM is a special type of RPM that only contains the differences between the old and the new. It patches instead of replaces, which is likely why you got to keep the nvidia driver. As long as you have the old rpm the result is exactly the same, but you can't use the patch rpm unless you already have the rpm it is built against, so you can't use it in future if you want to downgrade from a failed kernel upgrade, for example