makepatchrpm

Langue: en

Version: Nov 2005 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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NAME

makepatchrpm - create a patchrpm from a number of rpms

SYNOPSIS

makedeltarpm [-b] [-s] oldrpm1 oldrpm2 ... oldrpmN newrpm patchrpm

DESCRIPTION

makepatchrpm creates a patch rpm from a set of old rpms and a new rpm. The created patch rpm can be used to upgrade a system that has either one of oldrpm1, oldrpm2... oldrpmN installed to newrpm.

The old rpms can either be full rpms or just "rpmlist" files containing the filelist. See the rpmgetlist(8) command for how to create a rpmlist file.

There are two options for creating patch rpms suitable for older systems: the -b option makes makepatchrpm use an obsolete value for the file flags, use it when creating patch rpms for SuSE-8.0 systems.

The other option, -s, tells makepatchrpm not to add a SHA1 signature header to the patch rpm. It must be used for all systems older than and including SuSE Linux 10.0 (this includes SLES9 but not SLES10).

SEE ALSO

rpmgetlist(8)

AUTHOR

Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>