Feature changed by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #305930, revision 5 Title: Don't increase version number if not strictly needed Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Description: As I use KDE42 and other newer packages I often do a factory update. I see that the footprint is very big. Because a package gets always rebuild when for instance a dependent library get rebuild. Even if the package is 100% the same it'll gets the same version number. If possible I would like to have binary identical packages yo keep the same version number this reduces bandwidth usage for users/mirrors and it can give people a false feeling that Linux is buggy "as so many packages need to be updated". Discussion: #1: Vincent Petry (pvince81) (2009-06-30 16:27:55) Yes. Maybe yast or zypper can provide an option to ignore the package release version number change and only update the packages that have a major/minor package version change. In yast there is a menu item "package->all in this list->update only if newer package is available". Two new items could be added: "update only if major version change" and "update only if minor version change", both would ignore the release version number change. + #2: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-07-02 02:57:44) (reply to #1) + This behaviour would much more cause problems that it actually solves. + It should be fixed in the way the description says. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305930