deltarpm with old RPM packages

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote:
> Hello all..
> 
> We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM 
> version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with 
> 4.8.1..  We are creating the delta RPM packages on the F14 system with 
> makedeltarpm 3.6.
> 
> So package foo version 1 installs on the F14 systems just fine.  But 
> when running applydeltarpm with the drpm created against foo version 2, 
> we get "md5 mismatch of result" errors.
> 
> I'm guessing this is an issue with the fact that the RPM packages are 
> being built with an older version of RPM?  If that's the case, is there 
> any way around this problem?

Can you please provide a sample drpm, original rpm and target rpm
(please put them on the web somewhere and provide links)?  What OS is
the system that you're using to build the RPMS?

Jonathan

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