| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 28 Aug 2000 at 10:03:15 |
| Subject: | RPMs (Was: AMIOPEN: quake & doom) |
Quoting Rudi Chiarito <rudi@amiga.com>:
> Before all of that, though, I need to complete this handy tool that
> updates an installed RPM package, without even needing the original .rpm
> file on disk and without invalidating RPM's database (a tricky task,
> against RPM's philosophy, as the latter doesn't like others to fiddle
> with the files it has installed!). Imagine being able to download a
> 3.5MB update, rather than the whole new 21.5MB RPM. ;))
Sounds nice. Just keep in mind, though: The *real* reason why this
is against RPMs philosophy is that RPM doesn't support any techniques
which might break (ie. when you create an RPM from the sources, then
you must always, unpack the sources anew; you cannot unpack them,
tweak them until they build and then directly create an RPM without
a new, clean build). I also don't see any reason why package x.y +
patch to x.y+1 should be != package x.y+1 but you might consider this
when thinking about taking "short cuts" (which might cut users in
a short time) :-)
Or as someone put it: "There is a historical reason why it's called
*bleeding* egde technology".
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