afaik, "zypper patch" only applies recommended or security updates. "zypper up" applies all available updates. i always check available packages using nagios, i use zypper patch to install only the urgent updates. On Mar 2 2014 17:51, Per Jessen wrote:
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:51:55 +0100 From: Per Jessen
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Why I hate updating .... Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 03/02/2014 04:33 AM, Per Jessen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Greg Freemyer
wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Per Jessen
wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > Per Jessen
wrote: > >> >> I still can't login though - my password is accepted, but then >> I'm >> fairly promptly returned to the login screen. It seems that I >> ought to continue with another "zypper up", but is that the >> best/correct approach? > > Per, > > You keep saying "zypper up" Yes, I am updating a 12.3 system. My $SUBJ should have said "updating", not "upgrading".
In that case, zypper patch pulls exclusively updates from the official update repos only. It is a safer option than zypper up which can pull from any of the configured repos, and as such is more dangerous.
I sent that to fast. I meant to add that the repos "zypper patch" can pull is only those found at:
http://download.opensuse.org/update/
which you can see is just the official update repos that the opensuse support team maintains.
Greg
Yeah, I usually only play with other repos on systems I'm testing or debugging - for plain office machines like this laptop, I stick to vanilla openSUSE.
I appreciate your comments Greg - I've never used "zypper patch", I think I'll be switching to that.
You don't "switch" to using 'zypper patch', you use it as well as 'zypper up'.
Hmm, I'm not sure I quite get that - Greg says above "zypper patch pulls exclusively updates from the official update repos only.". As I mentioned, I generally only use the official repos anyway, so what would I use "zypper up" for?
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