The rpm command on SuSE 9.1 and 9.3 provides a patch select option (-P, --patches). I have not had a chance to review rpm on OpenSUSE, yet but will be doing that soon, so apologies if this message appears to be a bit misdirected - it's not. :-) Anyway, I'm guessing that a patch RPM is a "partial package" that does not contain all files, instead providing only the files that have been updated? If I issue the "rpm -qPa" command, I see a small subset of RPMs - notably, those that appear to have been applied as part of an online update. The Red Hat/Fedora/rpm.org guides and the master RPM change list do not document a -P option. Can someone give me some background? Is this a SuSE creation? What distinguishes a patch RPM from a regular RPM? I do know that any RPM can be considered a "patch" or "update", but I have a need to track RPMs that have been specifically applied in response to customer problem reports - this feature seems to meet that need. Thanks for your help. -Scott Lowrey