RE: Partial RPMs possible ?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart D. Gathman
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:59
> To: General discussion about the RPM package manager
> Subject: Re: Partial RPMs possible ?
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Tim T. wrote:
> 
> >   I'm trying to develop a patch application for a client. 
> This client 
> > is ...
> > Also, does anybody have any suggestions for a good patch strategy ?
> > (Application consists of a number of packages, some of 
> which contain a 
> > large number of files. How do I minimize the amount of data 
> I need to 
> > push to a remote machine, over a very expensive link ?)
> 
> Deltarpm is the way Fedora solved this problem.  See if you 
> can use that.
> 
> http://gitorious.org/deltarpm/deltarpm

Nice, very nice.

> 
> "makedeltarpm oldrpm newrpm deltarpm" takes 2 rpms, and 
> creates a drpm with the differences.  
> 
> "applydeltarpm -r oldrpm deltarpm newrpm" creates a standard 
> rpm from the previous version (either a copy of the old rpm 
> or the installed data).
> 
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