On 14/05/07, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Shawn> On 11/05/07, Vasiliy <vassun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Patches allows to focus change to single problem - single bug fix -
> >> nobody else in the market as well as I know offers this.
> [...]
> Shawn> I'm fairly certain SuSE did. I don't know if they still do. They
> Shawn> delivered special patch packages.
>
> The SuSE patch files that I'm familiar with are basically subsets of a
> full package.  For example, if a fix requires changes to packages foo
> and bar, you still have to download separate foo and bar patch files.
> They contain just the delta from the previous full package file.

That sounds right.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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