Re: patch or "sparse package" support under dpkg
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:32:31AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> I'm having trouble finding how to make patch packages under dpkg.
>
> Specifically I would like to make a package that would overwrite
> only certain files in the original package, and possibly add several
> new files. The package has become so large that it's inconvenient
> to ship/install all the files when only several of them have changed,
> and a patch update would do very nicely.
>
> Is it possible to do such a thing with dpkg?
I think you're looking for dpkg-divert(8).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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