Feature changed by: Vincent Petry (PVince81) Feature #305930, revision 3 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305930