RPM Patching

[Jonathan Dieter]

Sorry, I was looking at an older version of your software.  My mistake.  
Well, it seems the last thing to do is setting up yum to be able to use 
deltarpms.  Or has that already been done?

Michael Schroeder wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:57:40AM +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
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>>There's really not much of anything I can add except the fact that I'm 
>>dealing with the RPMs on a file by file basis, which means you don't 
>>necessarily have to have the original RPM when applying the patch.  You 
>>just have to have installed it on your system.
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>Yes, my deltarpm package also supports this. (It was actually
>one of the design goals.)
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>I'm also using bsdiff, but changed the algorithm to use a hash instead
>of a suffix tree, because the suffix tree takes way too much time for
>large archives.
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>Cheers,
>  Michael.
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