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. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
