Hello Tobias,
we are aware of the SuSE patching mechanism for RPMs, and indeed it seems to provide all the functionality we need. Though this is available and mature since a couple of time I still don't see that Redhat will incorporate that into stock rpm anytime soon. The reasons are completely beyond me. Until Redhat changes its mind we would love to see somebody coming up with a cool idea how to achieve a robust patching with the existing technology.
best regards Christof
Tobias Burnus wrote:
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.
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