Tetex deltarpm

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 09:40 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> The reason for this is that tetex-latex automatically modifies files
> created by both tetex and tetex-dvips, but those files aren't marked as
> configuration files and their verify bit is set.  Because of this,
> deltarpm has not way of knowing that it shouldn't try to diff these
> files.  A bug was opened on this problem back in 2005
> (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158758), but it
> doesn't look like anything has been done yet to fix this.
> 
> What should be done with this?

It's always possible that files have been locally modified. Especially
in a multilib environment where you may have 32-bit and/or 64-bit
packages installed, and only one of them provides the files in /usr/bin
for example. It seems more appropriate to use the files on the existing
system as _seed_ for something like rsync and not to just blindly use
them as-is and apply deltas.

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dwmw2