On 2014-03-02 17:51, Per Jessen wrote:
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?
Let me try. "zypper patch", or "yast online update", pulls updates only from repositories marked as "updates", which for most people mean the repo-update and the repo-update-non-oss, which are the only two official update channels. However, there are other Build Service repositories that do have an update repo of their own. It is up to the particular repo to have that update channel or not. If they exist, and you have those active, a zypper patch will also pull updates from those, non-official, repos. There are very few such repos (for instance: Akoellh has one). Those are an exception. So, normally, using only "zypper patch" or "yast online update" you are safer. However, if you use any other repo, such as "packman", as many people do, the only way to get security updates for those package from those is doing a "zypper up", or in yast select "update to a newer version if they exist". It is up to the people maintaining those repos what those updates will do... they can be security updates only, but typically you also get version updates. When a package is updated to a newer version, you get solved bugs and new bugs... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)