Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Toshio,

> So you're saying the SuSE method copies the files from
> foo-1.0-2.Patch-RPM into the file system and then modifies the rpm
> database to think it has foo-1.0-2.rpm installed?

Yes, iiuc.
                                                                      
> Perhaps discussion of
> the merits or deficiencies of the SuSE method belongs on rpm-list where
> people more involved with the future of rpm would comment?

Yet another mailing list to put on my doze off list ;-).

Bye,
Leonard.

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