Re: apt-get upgrade and recent samba security update
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:12:46 +0100
Marcus Blumhagen <marcus.blumhagen@web.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote:
[...]
> > I've downloaded all of it anyway, but now I wonder how could a minor
> > fix affect _that_ much so I need to download all of this stuff? Am
> > I the only one who experience such a problem?
>
> Since all those packages needed to be upgraded they all had to be
> completely downloaded. AFAIK There is no (not yet?) such thing as
> incremental upgrades or binary patches. Anytime a package needs an
> upgrade it is done by downloading its complete new version.
[...]
Interestingly, SuSE used to issue updates in the form of "patch rpm"
files (*.prpm). These files used to contain only the updated contents
of the corresponding package, and enough metadata to merge the
update into the RPM database. I have no idea whether they still do
this, and I have never seen anything like it in the .deb world.
--
Liam
Reply to: