deltarpm with old RPM packages

[Paul B Schroeder]

On 01/30/2011 02:35 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 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
Sure can..  Here they are: http://www.haywired.net/vbridges/

> (please put them on the web somewhere and provide links)?  What OS is
> the system that you're using to build the RPMS?
They are being built on Ubuntu 9.04..

Thanks for taking a look..Paul...


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Paul B Schroeder
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