Modern Update System

[Michael Schroeder]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:19:03PM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> Please, this is ridiculous.  Of course it's possible.  You make a decision:
> i) will a few patches be small/easy to install ii) should i generate a
> unified patch for this user iii) situation is so bad, just send a whole new
> rpm...  and there the repository has done some work and come up with the
> best solution for you.  ... and yes, there are many more decisions.. such as
> cross-package decisions etc...  but this is an absolute must for the next
> gen linux distros.
> 
> What's Redhat doing?  What's Novell doing?

Novell has patchrpms and deltarpms.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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