Doing an update on my CentOS 7 box and I noticed that there was a handful of DRPMs being installed. After doing some searches on google, there is no straight up Answer for this question so I thought it would fit here to ask.
- I am wondering what is a DRPM?
- How does it differ from a RPM package?
Best Answer
A
drpm
stands fordelta rpm
, which is an addition to an existingrpm
, and only contains the different files. Source:The README file referred to in the documentation can be found in the GitHub repository. You will see that
deltarpm
is based onbsdiff
.