Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Susanne Oberhauser <froh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Patches aren't installed. Actually if you update all packages, then
> none of the remaining patches should be relevant for your system, so
> they wont show as "needed".

A patch can trigger the installation of a pacakge that wasn't on
your system before, can't it?

> Patches are just a different view, where the grouping is by "problem"
> and not per package.

Sometimes the newest package is not good for everybody, and patches
allow you to be selective on when to update a package and when not to
update it.

For example, when it comes to drivers, patches can allow you to select
specific package versions for specific hardware versions, using the
modalias, while the packages overclaim they were good for everything.


Basically I think the package update is best for those repos that do
not provide patches.

So why did I ask wether they can be done both at the same time?

To update all packages and to also get all additional changes that are
triggered by the patches.


However the most important thing to me is to tell in repos.d/*.conf
wether to do package or patch updates per default on this or that
repo, I have use cases for that.  The other one (patches and packages
in one run) to me is less important.



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