Hello,
at http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html:
* OpenOffice.org Platform Technology: RPM Patching mechanism*
" RPMs do not allow for patching but only for the replacement of a whole package. This is suitable as long as the package is small or bandwidth is not an issue. OpenOffice will consist of a set of relatively large packages. To ease patching and upgrading it would be good to provide only the files that actually need to be exchanged. This could be solved by providing a patching mechanism on top of RPM. However this feature would be quite experimental."
I want to point out that SUSE has patched their RPM to support patch RPMs
(See rpm-4.1.1.diff in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.3/suse/src/rpm-4.1.1-208.src.rpm)
While this is not (yet?) in the official RedHat/upstream RPM tree, using something along these lines is surely better than re-inventing the wheel.
Cf. also http://www.freestandards.org/pipermail/packaging/2003-March/000214.html
New options:
-P, --patches
Limit the selected packages to patch-rpms. As a side effect, limit the file list to patched files.
--basedon
Show what packages a patch-rpm is based on. A patch-rpm can only be installed if
one of the packages it is based on is installed.
-l, --list
List files in package. If the -P option is also given, only patched files are shown.
Tobias
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