RE: installing october gnome

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poletti, Don [mailto:don.poletti@comverse-in.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: 'Andreas Berglund'; gnomelist
> Subject: RE: installing october gnome
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hi!
> > Im want to install october gnome, but I was wondering, the rpm:s at
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/gnomerpm.phtml?dist=redhat
> > are they for upgrades or for clean installs.
> 
> Andreas,
> 
> The rpms are used for both purposes. do you mean by "rpms for 
> upgrade" that
> they only include deltas from version x to version y. Then 
> there is no such
> beast to my knowledge. October GNOME contains everything you 
> need so you can
> do an install without having a previous version of gnome. But 
> if you do 
> have a previous version then you should use the same rpms to 
> upgrade, this
> is
> done by installing the new rpms and removing the old rpms. 
> the rpm program
> handles the adding and deleteing without dependacies issues 
> but using the -U
> flag.

There is no way to create RPMs that contain only diffs, although there has
been some talk of that.  There are "upgrade only" rpms that require you to
have a previous version installed, but they are for comertial resources, and
not for distributing just changes.  
	Greg