Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (379 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2011/4/4 Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 01:18:55AM +0200, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> > To make it clear. You can avoid using patches and still get the
> > updates from the updates repository, patches only give the extra
> > pretty information.
>
> Uh, that's not really true. Patches not only give you some pretty
> information, but they also force updates. 'zypper up' will not
> bother the user with problems, it'll just not do the update.
> 'zypper patch' will force the installation of all patches, thus
> the user has to resolve all problems.

What problems there could be?
Either the user has the official version of the package to be updated,
in which case there should be no problems; or he substituted the
package for one in another repository, in which case the patch doesn't
applies. If he didn't want the package from the main repo he neither
will want the package from the updates repo. He already accepted he
lost the security support when he substituted the package.

> If Tumbleweed is designed to be "on top" of some other project,
> it should use source links for the packages. That way, the build
> service knows that the package from Tumbleweed should get a
> higher release number that the one in 11.4.

But no way to know for sure that it will get a higher release number
than the in in the 11.4 updates repository?
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