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Posted Jan 6, 2008 18:56 UTC (Sun) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)
In reply to: Formats supported by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: RPM 5.0 released

Unlikely as RPMs contain metadata and pre- and post-installation scripts that are not kept on
the filesystem after installation.


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Posted Jan 6, 2008 19:01 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Scripts are kept. Otherwise, how would you run %preun and %postun? So yes, deltarpm magically
takes both the rpmdb and the delta file and produces a full (non-delta, perhaps .patch) rpm
out of it. And that takes a whee while.

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Posted Jan 7, 2008 15:21 UTC (Mon) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]

Actually OpenSuSE claims to do exactly that.  The Online update takes a 
delta rpm, and constructs the new files from the old, plus what's in the 
rpm delta file.

It generally works to!

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